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Re: LLTX and netif_stop_queue

To: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: LLTX and netif_stop_queue
From: Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:41:05 +0100
Cc: hadi@xxxxxxxxxx, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, openib-general@xxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 07:57:14 -0800, Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     jamal> Andi or anyone else - has anyone really done perfomance
>     jamal> analysis of LLTX (with anything other than loopback) and
>     jamal> shown it has any value? Maybe time to just shoot the damn
>     jamal> thing.
> 
> For the IPoIB driver, it seems to be worth a couple percent.  It's
> hard to get really consistent results but on my pair of test systems,
> TCP throughput with netperf goes up by about 30 Mbps out of roughly
> 1900 Mbps total.  It's probably not worth the complexity in the net
> core if all drivers only get that level of improvement.
> 
>  - Roland
> 

What are your machines? In particular, how many CPUs do they have?

-- 
Eric

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