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Message-ID: <4AF2FF22.2000805@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:36:50 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
CC: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@...acom.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] udp: optimize lookup of UDP sockets to by including
destination address in the hash key
Octavian Purdila a écrit :
> IIRC, we first saw this issue in VoIP tests with up to 16000 sockets bound on a
> certain port and IP addresses (each IP address is assigned to a particular
> interface). We need this setup in order to emulate lots of VoIP users each
> with a different IP address and possible a different L2 encapsulation.
Interesting case indeed, is it SIP 5060 port or RTP ports ?
(I want to know how many messages per second you want to receive)
An rbtree with 16000 elements has 15 levels, its a lot, but OK
for small trafic.
>
> Now, as a general note I should say that our usecases can seem absurd if you
> take them out of the network testing field :) but my _personal_ opinion is that
> a better integration between our code base and upstream code may benefit both
> upstream and us:
>
> - for us it gives the ability to stay close to upstream and get all of the new
> shiny features without painful upgrades
>
> - for upstream, even if most systems don't run into these scalability issues
> now, I see that some people are moving in that direction (see the recent PPP
> problems); also, stressing Linux in that regard can only make the code better
> - as long as the approach taken is clean and sound
>
> - we (or our customers) use a plethora of networking devices for testing so
> exposing Linux early to those devices can only help catching issues earlier
>
> In short: expect more absurd patches from us :)
I might cook something too :)
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