On 22/08/2013 23:11, Eric Wong wrote: > Eliezer Tamir <[email protected]> wrote: >> Performance: >> using sockperf, Intel X520 NICs, >> Supermicro 6026TT-BTF systems with E5-2690 Xeon CPUs >> 100 UDP sockets avg. latency 5.756 (std-dev 0.510) >> 1k UDP sockets avg. latency 5.780 (std-dev 0.536) >> 10k UDP sockets avg. latency 6.269 (std-dev 0.611) > > How does this compare to with normal poll on this system? > > In other words, what advantage is there to using epoll instead of poll > when busy looping? > > epoll and busy_poll seem to be opposites. epoll inherently has higher > latency than normal poll, but provides stable performance with many more > FDs.
I'm not sure I understand your claim that epoll has a higher latency than poll. Some quick (and very unscientific) testing seem to indicate that while poll is slightly faster than epoll when polling one socket, when polling on three sockets epoll is already slightly faster. (what's the point of using poll if you only need to monitor one socket?) With a larger socket set epoll is a clear winner. Both select and poll on 1k UDP sockets take over 120us on a similar system. Poll on 10 sockets takes about 6.8us, on 100 socket about 16.5us. Note that I'm using a slightly old NIC that has a high HW latency. For comparison, a busy poll on a socket read (using netperf) is about 5.7us. I expect Amir is seeing better numbers, but he's not telling. ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
