netdev - Re: tcp bw in 2.6

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Date:	Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:48:46 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	lm@...mover.com, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	wscott@...mover.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tcp bw in 2.6

Larry McVoy wrote:
> Interesting data point.  My test case is like this:
>
> server
> 	bind
> 	listen
> 	while (newsock = accept...)
> 		transfer()
>
> client
> 	connect
> 	transfer
>
> If the server side is the source of the data, i.e, it's transfer is a 
> write loop, then I get the bad behaviour.  If I switch them so the data
> flows in the other direction, then it works, I go from about 14K pkt/sec
> to 43K pkt/sec.
>
> Can anyone else reproduce this?  I can extract the test case from lmbench
> so it is standalone but I suspect that any test case will do it.  I'll
> try with the one that John sent.  Yup, s/read/write/ and s/write/read/
> in his two files at the appropriate places and I get exactly the same
> behaviour.
>
> So is this a bug or intentional?
>   
I have a more complex configuration & application, but I don't see this 
problem in
my testing.  Using e1000 nics and modern hardware I can set up a connection
between two machines and run 800+Mbps in both directions, or near line speed
in one direction if the other direction is mostly silent.

I am purposefully setting the socket send/rx buffers, as well has 
twiddling with
the tcp and netdev related tunables.  If you want, I can email these 
tweaks to you.

NICs and busses have a huge impact on performance, so make sure those 
are good.

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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