Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
And any time you increase latency, that will have a negative impact on NFS performance. NFS RPCs are usually small messages (except Write requests and Read replies) and the RTT for these (mostly small, bidirectional) messages can have a significant impact on NFS perf. rick this may be a

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Rick Macklem
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: And any time you increase latency, that will have a negative impact on NFS performance. NFS RPCs are usually small messages (except Write requests and Read replies) and the RTT for these (mostly small, bidirectional) messages can have a significant impact

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 13 September 2013 15:43, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: And any time you increase latency, that will have a negative impact on NFS performance. NFS RPCs are usually small messages (except Write requests and Read replies) and the RTT for these (mostly small, bidirectional)

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:08:27AM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote: On Aug 29, 2013, at 7:49 , Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: ... I still have some tool coding to do with PMC before I even think about tinkering with this as I'd like to measure stuff like per-packet latency as

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:08:27AM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote: On Aug 29, 2013, at 7:49 , Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: ... One quick note here. Every time you increase batching you may increase bandwidth but you will also increase per packet latency for the last packet in a

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it wrote: IXIA ? For the timescales we need to address we don't need an IXIA, a netmap sender is more than enough The great netmap generates only one IP flow (same src/dst IP and same src/dst port). This don't permit to test

Re: Network stack changes

2013-09-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Olivier Cochard-Labbé oliv...@cochard.me wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it wrote: IXIA ? For the timescales we need to address we don't need an IXIA, a netmap sender is more than enough The great netmap generates only one