performance decrease ?

performance decrease ?

[ratheesh kannoth]

I did an experiment  and this experiment gave me an unexpected result
( for me). I would like to get any clue or hint on this.
[ ubuntu  kernel version  3.11 ]

i wrote an userpace program to create two tap devices( tap77 and tap88
) and will epoll on these fds. if a packet is received on  tap77 fd,
it will be read() and write to tap88 fd  and vice versa. Basically
this program will send pkts from tap88 to tap77 and vice versa.  when
i sent 10  icmp packets (using ping ); i got  rtt min/avg/max/mdev
=.825/1.006/2.052/.310 ms.


I modified  tun_net_xmit() function in tun.c and created another
driver and ran the above test.

   tun_net_xmit() {

          skb_orphan(skb);

         if( skb->dev == tap77_dev ) skb->dev= tap88_dev
         else if (skb->dev == tap88_dev ) skb->dev = tap77_dev;

         skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
         skb_reset_network_header(skb);
         skb_reset_transport_header(skb);

         netif_rx_ni(skb);
 }


i got rtt min/avg/max/mdev = .778/1.023/2.662/.549.


With the modified driver,  Although we avoided   2 packet copies and 2
system call, it did not result in  performance
improvement ( it did decrease by a small delta ).

Thanks,
Ratheesh

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Re: performance decrease ?

[zhuyj]

On 04/24/2014 06:15 PM, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
> I did an experiment  and this experiment gave me an unexpected result
> ( for me). I would like to get any clue or hint on this.
> [ ubuntu  kernel version  3.11 ]
>
> i wrote an userpace program to create two tap devices( tap77 and tap88
> ) and will epoll on these fds. if a packet is received on  tap77 fd,
> it will be read() and write to tap88 fd  and vice versa. Basically
> this program will send pkts from tap88 to tap77 and vice versa.  when
> i sent 10  icmp packets (using ping ); i got  rtt min/avg/max/mdev
> =.825/1.006/2.052/.310 ms.
>
>
> I modified  tun_net_xmit() function in tun.c and created another
> driver and ran the above test.
>
>     tun_net_xmit() {
>
>            skb_orphan(skb);
>
>           if( skb->dev == tap77_dev ) skb->dev= tap88_dev
>           else if (skb->dev == tap88_dev ) skb->dev = tap77_dev;
>
>           skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
>           skb_reset_network_header(skb);
>           skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
>
>           netif_rx_ni(skb);
netif_rx_ni(skb); will insert the skb into a queue. We can not make sure 
when this skb is handled. So use this function is not accurate to 
performance.

Best Regards!
Zhu Yanjun
>   }
>
>
> i got rtt min/avg/max/mdev = .778/1.023/2.662/.549.
>
>
> With the modified driver,  Although we avoided   2 packet copies and 2
> system call, it did not result in  performance
> improvement ( it did decrease by a small delta ).
>
> Thanks,
> Ratheesh
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