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Message-Id: <20120924.163846.351381312643475595.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:38:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-net] net: loopback: set default mtu to 64K
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:33:16 +0200
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 16:24 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:28:59 +0200
>>
>> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>> >
>> > loopback current mtu of 16436 bytes allows no more than 3 MSS TCP
>> > segments per frame, or 48 Kbytes. Changing mtu to 64K allows TCP
>> > stack to build large frames and significantly reduces stack overhead.
>> >
>> > Performance boost on bulk TCP transferts can be up to 30 %, partly
>> > because we now have one ACK message for two 64KB segments, and a lower
>> > probability of hitting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_reordering default limit.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>
>> This gives a nice %13 improvement on my SPARC-T4 box as well.
>>
>> Applied, thanks Eric.
>
> the biggest increase is with
>
> netperf -- -m 63K
>
> I reach 50000 Mbytes/second
I tested with lmbench bw_tcp, which gives me about 1308 MB/sec.
And indeed that netperf command line gives superior numbers,
about 11747 MB/sec
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