Re: Route cache performance

[Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:04:21AM +0200, Robert Olsson wrote:

> 
> 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.

I got stuck in some mud again, but I was able to run a small oprofile.

nf_iterate was near the top even though the firewall was empty, so I
changed CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y to CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m (and didn't
load it).  Throughput went up from 173 Mbps to 232 Mbps...yikes. 
Conntrack was never compiled.  I'll do some more profiling when I get
a chance...

Simon-