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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on incoming packets and scheduler
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:13:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8DAA6B.7060609@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.56.0310151133030.2144@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Chris Friesen wrote:

>>It appears that 2.4.20 fixes this issue, but there is another one
>>remaining that the latency appears to be dependent on the number of
>>incoming packets.  See thread "incoming packet latency in 2.4.[18-20]"
>>for details.  This behaviour doesn't show up in 2.6, and I'm about to
>>test 2.4.22.

> Are you sure it's not a livelock issue during the burst?

I dunno, you tell me.

The test app simply sits in select() until a packet comes in, then it 
spins on recvmsg() until there are no more messages.  It uses 
SO_TIMESTAMP to find out when the packet got to the kernel, and does a 
gettimeofday() right after the recvmsg(), then calculates the delta for 
each packet and the overall average.

With 2.4.[18-20], the overall average goes up when the number of packets 
goes up.  For 2.6.0-test6, it stays constant.

Chris




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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-15  1:39 question on incoming packets and scheduler Chris Friesen
2003-10-15  3:42 ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-15 17:39 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-10-15 18:17   ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-15 18:35     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-10-15 20:13       ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-10-15 20:27         ` Andrew R. Reiter
2003-10-15 20:53         ` Chris Friesen

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