Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

From: Patrick McHardy (kaber_at_trash.net)
Date: 08/21/05

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    Date:	Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:15:28 +0200
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    Danial Thom wrote:
    > I just started fiddling with 2.6.12, and there
    > seems to be a big drop-off in performance from
    > 2.4.x in terms of networking on a uniprocessor
    > system. Just bridging packets through the
    > machine, 2.6.12 starts dropping packets at
    > ~100Kpps, whereas 2.4.x doesn't start dropping
    > until over 350Kpps on the same hardware (2.0Ghz
    > Opteron with e1000 driver). This is pitiful
    > prformance for this hardware. I've
    > increased the rx ring in the e1000 driver to 512
    > with little change (interrupt moderation is set
    > to 8000 Ints/second). Has "tuning" for MP
    > destroyed UP performance altogether, or is there
    > some tuning parameter that could make a 4-fold
    > difference? All debugging is off and there are
    > no messages on the console or in the error logs.
    > The kernel is the standard kernel.org dowload
    > config with SMP turned off and the intel ethernet
    > card drivers as modules without any other
    > changes, which is exactly the config for my 2.4
    > kernels.

    Do you have netfilter enabled? Briging netfilter was
    added in 2.6, enabling it will influence performance
    negatively. Otherwise, is this performance drop
    visible in other setups besides bridging as well?
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