"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/29/2006 03:23:51 PM:
> Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: Re: [PATCH] IPoIB splitting CQ,?
> increase both send/recv poll NUM_WC & interval
> >
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > smp kernel on UP result is very bad. It dropped 40% throughput.
> > up kernel on UP thoughput dropped with cpu utilization dropped
> from 75% idle to 52% idle.
>
> Hmm. So far it seems the approach only works well on 2 CPUs.
Yes, since one cpu can only handler one handler.
The easy solution would use ifdef SMP.
Some mistake here, the cpu utilization dropped
from 85%(15% idle) to 52%(48% idle).
> > I didn't see latency difference. I used TCP_RR test.
>
> This is somewhat surprising, isn't it? One would explain the extra
> context switch to have some effect on latency, would one not?
>
> --
> MST
Thread context switch is pretty light.
Thanks
Shirley Ma
IBM Linux Technology Center
15300 SW Koll Parkway
Beaverton, OR 97006-6063
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