netdev - Re: [LKP] [tcp] a337531b94: netperf.Throughput

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Date:   Tue, 9 Oct 2018 19:05:20 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     rong.a.chen@...el.com
Cc:     Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, LKP <lkp@...org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [tcp] a337531b94: netperf.Throughput_Mbps -6.1% regression

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:01 PM kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Greeting,
>
> FYI, we noticed a -6.1% regression of netperf.Throughput_Mbps due to commit:
>
>
> commit: a337531b942bd8a03e7052444d7e36972aac2d92 ("tcp: up initial rmem to 128KB and SYN rwin to around 64KB")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git master
>
> in testcase: netperf
> on test machine: 16 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz with 8G memory
> with following parameters:
>
>         ip: ipv4
>         runtime: 900s
>         nr_threads: 200%
>         cluster: cs-localhost
>         test: TCP_STREAM
>         ucode: 0x7000013
>         cpufreq_governor: performance
>
> test-description: Netperf is a benchmark that can be use to measure various aspect of networking performance.
> test-url: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/
>
>

This should have been fixed by :

041a14d2671573611ffd6412bc16e2f64469f7fb tcp: start receiver buffer
autotuning sooner