netdev - Re: performance decrease ?

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:18:31 +0800
From:	zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
To:	ratheesh kannoth <ratheesh.ksz@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netfilter mailing list <netfilter@...r.kernel.org>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: performance decrease ?

On 04/24/2014 06:15 PM, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
> I did an experiment  and this experiment gave me an unexpected result
> ( for me). I would like to get any clue or hint on this.
> [ ubuntu  kernel version  3.11 ]
>
> i wrote an userpace program to create two tap devices( tap77 and tap88
> ) and will epoll on these fds. if a packet is received on  tap77 fd,
> it will be read() and write to tap88 fd  and vice versa. Basically
> this program will send pkts from tap88 to tap77 and vice versa.  when
> i sent 10  icmp packets (using ping ); i got  rtt min/avg/max/mdev
> =.825/1.006/2.052/.310 ms.
>
>
> I modified  tun_net_xmit() function in tun.c and created another
> driver and ran the above test.
>
>     tun_net_xmit() {
>
>            skb_orphan(skb);
>
>           if( skb->dev == tap77_dev ) skb->dev= tap88_dev
>           else if (skb->dev == tap88_dev ) skb->dev = tap77_dev;
>
>           skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
>           skb_reset_network_header(skb);
>           skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
>
>           netif_rx_ni(skb);
netif_rx_ni(skb); will insert the skb into a queue. We can not make sure 
when this skb is handled. So use this function is not accurate to 
performance.

Best Regards!
Zhu Yanjun
>   }
>
>
> i got rtt min/avg/max/mdev = .778/1.023/2.662/.549.
>
>
> With the modified driver,  Although we avoided   2 packet copies and 2
> system call, it did not result in  performance
> improvement ( it did decrease by a small delta ).
>
> Thanks,
> Ratheesh
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