Re: Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Increasing the interrupt moderation frequency worked on the re driver, :but it only made it marginally better. Even without moderation, :however, I could lose packets without m_defrag. I suspect that there is :something in the higher level layers that is causing the packet loss. I :have no expl

Re: Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-22 Thread Sean McNeil
Hi John-Mark, On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 13:31 -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Sean McNeil wrote this message on Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:14 -0800: > > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 11:34 +, Robert Watson wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > > > > > > > I have to disagree. Packet loss i

Re: Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-22 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Sean McNeil wrote this message on Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:14 -0800: > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 11:34 +, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > > > > > I have to disagree. Packet loss is likely according to some of my > > > tests. With the re driver, no change except

Re: Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-22 Thread Sean McNeil
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 11:34 +, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > > > I have to disagree. Packet loss is likely according to some of my > > tests. With the re driver, no change except placing a 100BT setup with > > no packet loss to a gigE setup (both linksys sw

Re: Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > I have to disagree. Packet loss is likely according to some of my > tests. With the re driver, no change except placing a 100BT setup with > no packet loss to a gigE setup (both linksys switches) will cause > serious packet loss at 20Mbps data rates. I

Re: Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-21 Thread Sean McNeil
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 20:42 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : Yes, I knew that adjusting TCP window size is important to use up a link. > : However I wanted to show adjusting the parameters of Interrupt > : Moderation affects network performance. > : > : And I think a packet loss was occured by enab

Re: Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Yes, I knew that adjusting TCP window size is important to use up a link. : However I wanted to show adjusting the parameters of Interrupt : Moderation affects network performance. : : And I think a packet loss was occured by enabled Interrupt Moderation. : The mechanism of a packet loss in this

Re[4]: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem

2004-11-21 Thread Shunsuke SHINOMIYA
Thank you, Matt. > > Very interesting, but the only reason you get lower results is simply > because the TCP window is not big enough. That's it. > Yes, I knew that adjusting TCP window size is important to use up a link. However I wanted to show adjusting the parameters of Interrup