From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: anton@samba.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:55:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <413C25F4.8030501@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040905203331.7a2a2fad.davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:09:30 +1000
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah I had seen a few, surprisingly few though. Sorry I'm a bit clueless
>>about networking - I suppose there is a good reason for the 16K MTU? My
>>first thought might be that a 4K one could be better on CPU cache as well
>>as lighter on the mm. I know the networking guys know what they're doing
>>though...
>
>
> It's better to get as long a stride as possible for the copy
> from userspace, and yes as you get larger you run into cache
> issues. 16K turned out the be the break point considering those
> two attributes when I did my testing.
>
OK. Makes sense.
> Just fool around with ifconfig lo mtu XXX and TCP bandwidth tests.
> See what you come up with.
>
Thanks, I'll give that a try. I don't nearly have access to a
representitive range of architectures, but if I see anything
interesting on what I've got, I'll ping you.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-06 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-05 5:44 Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 5:45 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] account free buddy areas Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 5:46 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] alloc-order watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 5:47 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] teach kswapd about watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 6:04 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-05 6:20 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 5:50 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] alloc-order watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 6:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] account free buddy areas Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 6:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat David S. Miller
2004-09-05 6:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 10:13 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-05 17:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-05 17:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-05 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-05 18:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-06 1:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-15 13:27 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 13:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 13:34 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 13:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 14:18 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-06 1:09 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-05 6:26 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 6:27 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-05 10:09 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-06 3:33 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-06 8:55 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-05 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-06 0:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-06 1:49 ` Nick Piggin
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