netdev - Re: degradation in bridging performance of 5% in 2.6.20 when compared to 2.6.19

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Message-ID: <20070216103252.58289213@freekitty>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:32:52 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	kalyan tejaswi <kalyanatejaswi@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: degradation in bridging performance of 5% in 2.6.20 when
 compared to	2.6.19

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:43:20 -0800
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> wrote:

> kalyan tejaswi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have been comparing bridging performance for 2.6.20 and 2.6.19
> > kernels. The kenel configurations are identical for both the kernels.
> > I use D-Link cards (8139too driver) for the Malta 4Kc board.
> > 
> > The setup is:
> > 
> > netperf  client  <------->  malta 4Kc  <---------> netperf  server.
> > 
> > The throughput statistics (in 10^6 bits/second) are:
> > 
> >                    2.6.19          2.6.20
> > routing            30.2           30.16
> > bridging          32.35          30.81
> > 
> > I observe that there has been a degradation in bridging performance of
> > 5% in 2.6.20 when compared to 2.6.19.
> > 
> > Has anyone observed similar behaviour?
> > Any inputs or suggestions are welcome.
> 
> In each case is the malta CPU bound?  If not, some idea of the change in 
> CPU util might be helpful.
> 
> rick jones
> btw, netperf 2.4.3 just released:
> ftp://ftp.netperf.org/netperf
> http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/tags/netperf-2.4.3
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I couldn't think of a worse NIC for bridging than the 8139too
because that card has no direct DMA and does a data copy for each receive.

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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
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