linux-next network throughput performance regression
Dexuan Cui
decui at microsoft.com
Mon Nov 9 03:31:15 UTC 2015
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem at 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. :-)
Thanks,
-- Dexuan
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