From: Jordan Mendelson <jordy@napster.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: ookhoi@dds.nl, Vibol Hou <vibol@khmer.cc>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
sim@stormix.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B))
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:10:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A9458FD.A87205FC@napster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HDEBKHLDKIDOBMHPKDDKMEGDEFAA.vibol@khmer.cc> <20010221104723.C1714@humilis> <14995.40701.818777.181432@pizda.ninka.net> <3A9453F4.993A9A74@napster.com> <14996.21701.542448.49413@pizda.ninka.net>
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> Jordan Mendelson writes:
> > Now, if it didn't have the side effect of dropping packets left and
> > right after ~4000 open connections (simultaneously), I could finally
> > move our production system to 2.4.x.
>
> There is no reason my patch should have this effect.
My guess is that the fast path prevented the need for looking up the
destination in some structure which is limited to ~4K entries (route
table?).
Jordan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-22 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-21 0:06 netdev issues (3c905B) Vibol Hou
2001-02-21 0:21 ` Martin Moerman
2001-02-21 0:34 ` Vibol Hou
2001-02-21 9:47 ` 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B)) Ookhoi
2001-02-21 13:12 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-02-21 10:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-21 11:33 ` Ookhoi
2001-02-21 17:17 ` Ookhoi
2001-02-21 19:06 ` Vibol Hou
2001-02-21 19:22 ` Vibol Hou
2001-02-21 22:30 ` Jordan Mendelson
2001-02-22 8:28 ` Ookhoi
2001-02-21 23:49 ` Jordan Mendelson
2001-02-21 23:52 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-22 0:10 ` Jordan Mendelson [this message]
2001-02-22 0:50 ` Jordan Mendelson
2001-02-27 0:21 ` Simon Kirby
2001-02-27 0:26 ` David S. Miller
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