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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:44:19 -0400 From: Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com> To: "Matthew Faulkner" <matthew.faulkner@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Throughput Bug? On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Matthew Faulkner wrote: > Hey all > > I'm using netperf to perform TCP throughput tests via the localhost > interface. This is being done on a SMP machine. I'm forcing the > netperf server and client to run on the same core. However, for any > packet sizes below 523 the throughput is much lower compared to the > throughput when the packet sizes are greater than 524. > > Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand > Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv > Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote > bytes bytes bytes secs. MBytes /s % S % S us/KB us/KB > 65536 65536 523 30.01 81.49 50.00 50.00 11.984 11.984 > 65536 65536 524 30.01 460.61 49.99 49.99 2.120 2.120 > > The chances are i'm being stupid and there is an obvious reason for > this, but when i put the server and client on different cores i don't > see this effect. > > Any help explaining this will be greatly appreciated. > > Machine details: > > Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 23:43:59 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > sched_affinity is used by netperf internally to set the core affinity. I don't know if it's relevant, but note that 524 bytes + 52 bytes of IP(20)/TCP(20)/TimeStamp(12) overhead gives a 576 byte packet, which is the specified size that all IP routers must handle (and the smallest value possible during PMTU discovery I believe). A message size of 523 bytes would be 1 less than that. Could this possibly have to do with ABC (possibly try disabling it if set)? -Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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