Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:01 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: tbench regression on each kernel release from 2.6.22 -> 2.6.28 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:36:38 -0500
> It seems that the network stack becomes slower over time? Here is a list of > tbench results with various kernel versions: > > 2.6.22 3207.77 mb/sec > 2.6.24 3185.66 > 2.6.25 2848.83 > 2.6.26 2706.09 > 2.6.27(rc2) 2571.03 > > And linux-next is: > > 2.6.28(l-next) 2568.74 > > It shows that there is still have work to be done on linux-next. Too close to > upstream in performance. > > Note the KT event between 2.6.24 and 2.6.25. Why is that?
Isn't that when some major scheduler changes went in? I'm not blaming the scheduler, but rather I'm making the point that there are other subsystems in the kernel that the networking interacts with that influences performance at such a low level. This includes the memory allocator :-)
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