netdev - Re: Netperf TCP_RR(loopback) 10% regression in 2.6.24-rc6, comparing with 2.6.22

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:11:32 +0800
From:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netperf TCP_RR(loopback) 10% regression in
	2.6.24-rc6,	comparing with 2.6.22

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 09:56 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> >>The test command is:
> >>#sudo taskset -c 7 ./netserver
> >>#sudo taskset -c 0 ./netperf -t TCP_RR -l 60 -H 127.0.0.1 -i 50,3 -I 99,5 -- -r 1,1
> 
> A couple of comments/questions on the command lines:
Thanks for your kind comments.

> 
> *) netperf/netserver support CPU affinity within themselves with the 
> global -T option to netperf.  Is the result with taskset much different? 
>    The equivalent to the above would be to run netperf with:
> 
> ./netperf -T 0,7 ..
I checked the source codes and didn't find this option.
I use netperf V2.3 (I found the number in the makefile).

> .
> 
> The one possibly salient difference between the two is that when done 
> within netperf, the initial process creation will take place wherever 
> the scheduler wants it.
> 
> *) The -i option to set the confidence iteration count will silently cap 
> the max at 30.
Indeed, you are right.

-yanmin


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