Re: FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-25 Thread jamal
On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 13:08 -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > CPUID: > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 4 > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz > > shows that it is a P4 Xeon, which sucks compared to: > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu

Re: FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-25 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:59:54PM -0400, jamal wrote: > On Thu, 2007-21-06 at 12:55 -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > > You should qualify that as 'Old P4 Xeon', as the Core 2 Xeons are leagues > > better. > > The Xeon hardware is not that old - about a year or so (and so is the > opteron). >

Re: FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-25 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2007-21-06 at 12:55 -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > You should qualify that as 'Old P4 Xeon', as the Core 2 Xeons are leagues > better. The Xeon hardware is not that old - about a year or so (and so is the opteron). BTW, how could you tell this was old Xeon? cheers, jamal - To unsub

Re: FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-25 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2007-21-06 at 20:45 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:54:17AM -0400, jamal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Evgeniy, did you sync on the batching case with the git tree? > > My tree contains following commits: > > Latest mainline commit: fa490cfd15d7ce0900097cc4e60

Re: FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-21 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:08:19PM -0400, jamal wrote: > The results in the table for opteron and xeon are swapped when > cutnpasting from a larger test result. So Opteron is the one with better > results. > In any case - off for the day over here. You should qualify that as 'Old P4 Xeon', as the

Re: FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-21 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:54:17AM -0400, jamal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy, did you sync on the batching case with the git tree? My tree contains following commits: Latest mainline commit: fa490cfd15d7ce0900097cc4e60cfd7a76381138 Latest batch commit: 9b8cc32088abfda8be7f394cfd5ee6ac694d

Re: FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-21 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2007-21-06 at 11:54 -0400, jamal wrote: > The summary is: Batching always is better, jiffies is always the better > clock source (and who would have thunk,eh? Opteron kicks a Xeons ass). The results in the table for opteron and xeon are swapped when cutnpasting from a larger test result.

FSCKED clock sources WAS(Re: [WIP][PATCHES] Network xmit batching

2007-06-21 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2007-19-06 at 15:28 -0700, David Miller wrote: > Converting pktgen over to ktime_t might be a nice cleanup. Would that really solve it? i.e doesnt it still tie to what the clock source is? I had a friend of mine (Robert, you know Jeremy) and results are slightly different from what Evgin