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Re: Route cache performance

To: Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Route cache performance
From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:04:21 +0200
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Simon Kirby writes:


 > Sender: 367 Mbps, 717883 pps valid src/dst, 64 byte (Ethernet) packets
 > 
 > 2.4.27-rc1: 297 Mbps forwarded (w/idle time?!)
 > 2.4.31: 296 Mbps forwarded (w/idle time?!)
 > 2.6.13-rc6: 173 Mbps forwarded

 > Time permitting, I'd also like to run some profiles.  It's interesting
 > to note that 2.6 is slower at forwarding even straight duplicate small
 > packets.  We should definitely get to the bottom of that.

 Yes. This is single flow? Strange.

 Run a fixed size shot 10Mpkts pkts or so for both 2.4 and 2.6 and save 
 /proc/interrupts, proc/net/softnetstat, netstat -i, tc -s qdisc to start with.
 
 A profile on 2.6 could solve the confusion.

 Cheers.
                                                --ro

 

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