From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:53:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4BCF73D8.8090603@hp.com> References: <1271268242.16881.1719.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271271222.4567.51.camel@bigi> <20100415.014857.168270765.davem@davemloft.net> <1271332528.4567.150.camel@bigi> <4BC741AE.3000108@hp.com> <1271362581.23780.12.camel@bigi> <1271395106.16881.3645.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271424065.4606.31.camel@bigi> <1271489739.16881.4586.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271525519.3929.3.camel@bigi> <1271583573.16881.4798.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271590476.16881.4925.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271764941.3735.94.camel@bigi> <1271769195.7895.4.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1271853570.4032.21.camel@bigi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Dumazet , Changli Gao , David Miller , therbert@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, robert@herjulf.net, andi@firstfloor.org To: hadi@cyberus.ca Return-path: Received: from g5t0006.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.43]:39610 "EHLO g5t0006.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756738Ab0DUVxe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:53:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1271853570.4032.21.camel@bigi> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Let me explain my test setup (which some app types may gasp at;->): > > SUT(system under test) was a nehalem single processor (4 cores, 2 SMT > threads per core). > SUT runs a udp sink server i wrote (with apologies to Rick Jones[1]) > ... > > [1] I want to hump on the SUT with tons of traffic and count packets; > too complex to do with netperf No need to apologize, if you like I'd be happy to discuss netperf usage tips offline. That offer stands for everyone. happy benchmarking, rick jones