Re: TCP_STREAM performance regression on commit b3613118

From: Jason Wang
Date: Tue Mar 06 2012 - 03:26:21 EST


On 03/06/2012 04:11 PM, Feng Tang wrote:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:07:43PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alex Shi<alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:45:17 +0800
>
> > Add CC to tang feng, He is working on this issue.
> > Is he? I'm pretty sure this is due to the TCP receive window growing
> issue Eric Dumazet, Neal Cardwell and I are discussing in the thread
> starting at:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=132916352815286&w=2
Yes, probably, as we did find some clue related with the tcp_r/wmem.

Here is the regression we found:
On some machines, we found there is about 10% resgression of netperf
TCP-64K loopback test between 3.2 and 3.3-rc1. The exact test is:
./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -l 60 -H 127.0.0.1 -i 50,3 -I 99,5 -- -s 32768 -S 32768 -m 4096


The test machine is a 2 socket Quad Core Core 2 Duo server(2.66GHz) with
8 GB RAM. Following are the debug info (ifconfig/netstat -s/tcp_rwmem)
before and after the test:

The most obvious differences I can see are:
1) 311 GB vs 241 GB from ifconfig
2) the difference of the tcp_r/wmem

Hi:

Could you try the newest kernel? Looks like the difference has been already fixed by commit c43b874d5d714f271b80d4c3f49e05d0cbf51ed2.

Thanks
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