Re: [RFC] TCP congestion schedulers

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:32:33 -0500 (EST)
John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The motivation for my question is that I get very unpredictable
> performance over loopback with UP for all architectures, often varying by
> more than a factor of two.  I haven't really tried to track down the
> cause, but an important characteristic seems to be that the greater the
> differential between the CPU utilization of the sender and the receiver,
> the slower the throughput.  (But I'm not sure if there's a causal relation
> here.)  Maybe this is simply scheduler strangeness, since it doesn't seem
> to be an issue that I've noticed on SMP.  Has anyone seen this or know
> offhand what's going on?

It could be L2 cache-coloring effects as well.  Try to keep the working
set size smaller than the L2 cache size of the cpu you are on.