netdev
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:36:04 -0700
Cc: Martin.Bligh@xxxxxxxxxx, hadi@xxxxxxxxxx, tcw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, niv@xxxxxxxxxx
References: <18563262.1031269721@[10.10.2.3]> <20020905.235159.128049953.davem@redhat.com>
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> NAPI is also not the panacea to all problems in the world.
> 

Mala did some testing on this a couple of weeks back.  It appears that
NAPI damaged performance significantly.

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linuxperf/netperf/results/july_02/netperf2.5.25results.htm


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>