Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression

From	Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression
Date	2015-11-09 06:40 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
>> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 11:24
>> ...
>> > Thanks, David!
>> > I understand 1 TX queue is the bottleneck (however in Simon's
>> > test, TX=1 => 36.7Gb/s, TX=8 => 37.7 Gb/s, so it looks the TX=1 bottleneck
>> > is not so obvious).
>> > I'm just wondering how the bottleneck became much narrower with
>> > recent linux-next in Simon's result (36.7 Gb/s vs. 18.2 Gb/s). IMO there
>> > must be some latency somewhere.
>>
>> I think the whole thing here is that you misinterpreted what Eric said.
>>
>> He is not arguing that some regression did, or did not, happen.
>>
>> He instead was making the basic statement about the fact that due to
>> the lack of paralellness a single stream TCP case is harder to
>> optimize for high speed NICs.
>>
>> That is all.
> Thanks, I got it.
> I'm actually new to network performance tuning, trying to understand
> all the related details. :-)
>

You might want to look at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt as an
introduction to the scaling capabilities of the stack.

Tom

> Thanks,
> -- Dexuan
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linux-next network throughput performance regression Simon Xiao <sixiao@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-06 21:40 +0100
  Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2015-11-06 21:50 +0100
    Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2015-11-06 22:40 +0100
      Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 20:40 +0100
        Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 21:00 +0100
          RE: linux-next network throughput performance regression Simon Xiao <sixiao@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-09 21:30 +0100
            Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 00:10 +0100
        Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-11-09 04:00 +0100
          Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-11-09 04:30 +0100
            Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 04:40 +0100
            Re: linux-next network throughput performance regression Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> - 2015-11-09 06:40 +0100

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