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

2012-07-16 Thread Rick Jones
ave outstanding before it does a read? And does it take care to build-up to that number of writes to avoid batching during slowstart, even with TCP_NODELAY set? rick jones ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozla

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

2012-07-16 Thread Rick Jones
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

Re: [PATCH] ucc_geth: Add support for skb recycling

2009-07-07 Thread Rick Jones
Anton Vorontsov wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:47:38AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote: Admittedly, all the world is not TCP, but a big chunk is, so are you likely to have reference counts go to zero on the tx queue for anything other than small standalone TCP ACK segments? That's a ge

Re: [PATCH] ucc_geth: Add support for skb recycling

2009-07-07 Thread Rick Jones
o are you likely to have reference counts go to zero on the tx queue for anything other than small standalone TCP ACK segments? rick jones ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Re: [RFC] gianfar: low gigabit throughput

2008-05-07 Thread Rick Jones
y to act as a receiver, you might give that a try - it would be interesting to see the effect of their ACK avoidance heuristics on TCP throughput. One non-trivial difference I keep forgetting to mention is that TCP will have that returning ACK stream that UDP will not. rick jones __

Re: [RFC] gianfar: low gigabit throughput

2008-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
Anton Vorontsov wrote: Hi all, Down here few question regarding networking throughput, I would appreciate any thoughts or ideas. On the MPC8315E-RDB board (CPU at 400MHz, CSB at 133 MHz) I'm observing relatively low TCP throughput using gianfar driver... What is the "target" of the test - is

Re: RFC: issues concerning the next NAPI interface

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
ny number of other benchmarks. The "send a request, wait for reply, send next request, etc etc etc" is a rather common application behaviour afterall. rick jones ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev