netdev - Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: map entire pages to increase throughput

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:42:41 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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	"anton@...ba.org" <anton@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: map entire pages to increase throughput

On 07/16/2012 12:06 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:27:57AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
>
>> What is the effect on packet-per-second performance?  (eg aggregate,
>> burst-mode netperf TCP_RR with TCP_NODELAY set or perhaps UDP_RR)
>>
> I used uperf with TCP_NODELAY and 16 threads sending from another
> machine 64000-sized writes for 60 seconds.
>
> I get 5898op/s (3.02Gb/s) without the patch against 18022ops/s
> (9.23Gb/s) with the patch.

I was thinking more along the lines of an additional comparison, 
explicitly using netperf TCP_RR or something like it, not just the 
packets per second from a bulk transfer test.

rick
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