Martin J. Bligh wrote:
Stupid question, are you sure you have CONFIG_E1000_NAPI enabled?
NAPI is also not the panacea to all problems in the world.
No, but I didn't expect throughput to drop by 40% or so either,
which is (very roughly) what happened. Interrupts are a pain to
manage and do affinity with, so NAPI should (at least in theory)
be better for this kind of setup ... I think.
No, no. Bad Martin! Throughput didn't drop, "Specweb compliance" dropped.
Those are two very, very different things. I've found that the server
can produce a lot more throughput, although it doesn't have the
characteristics that Specweb considers compliant. Just have Troy enable
mod-status and look at the throughput that Apache tells you that it is
giving during a run. _That_ is real throughput, not number of compliant
connections.
_And_ NAPI is for receive only, right? Also, my compliance drop occurs
with the NAPI checkbox disabled. There is something else in the new driver
that causes our problems.
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Dave Hansen
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