Re: 16-CPU #s for lockfree rtcache (rt_rcu)

Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Fri, 17 May 2002 21:44:33 +0530

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:49:21AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 19:21:16 +0530
>
> 2.5.3 : ip_route_output_key [c01bab8c]: 12166
> 2.5.3+rt_rcu : ip_route_output_key [c01bb084]: 6027
>
> Thanks for doing the testing. Are you able to do this
> test on some 4 or 8 processor non-NUMA system?

Yes, but may not have been the same test. We have been doing various
configurations for this test. One fallout of using large number of
dest addresses is that we have frequent neighbor table garbage collection
which results in a lot of lock contentions. By slowing down
the packet rate and/or increasing the gc threshold, we can
avoid this. How realistic is this ? If we avoid frequent
gc, we see better gains in route lookup. With frequent gc,
the speedup was of about 22% for an 8 cpu SMP, IIRC. I will rerun
the tests tomorrow or monday to get both sets of numbers for 8-cpu
SMP.

Thanks

-- 
Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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