Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

In message [off-list ref], > : "David S. Miller" 
writes:

   From: "Martin J. Bligh" [off-list ref]
   Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:51:29 -0700
   
   I see no reason why turning on NAPI should make the Apache setup
   we have perform worse ... quite the opposite. Yes, we could use
   Tux, yes we'd get better results. But that's not the point ;-)

Of course.

I just don't want propaganda being spread that using Tux means you
lose any sort of web server functionality whatsoever.

Ah sorry - I never meant to imply that Tux was detrimental, other
than one case where it seemed to have no benefit and the performance
numbers while tuning for TPC-W *seemed* worse but were never analyzed
completely.  That was the actual event that I meant when I said:

	We also had some bad starts with using Tux in terms of performance
	and scalability on 4-CPU and 8-CPU machines, especially when
	combining with things like squid or other cacheing products from
	various third parties.

Those results were never quantified but for various reasons we had a
team that decided to take Tux out of the picture.  I think the problem
was more likely lack of knowledge and lack of time to do analysis on
the particular problems.  Another combination of solutions was used.

So, any comments I made which might have implied that Tux/Tux2 made things
worse have no substantiated data to prove that and it is quite possible
that there is no such problem.  Also, this was run nearly a year ago and
the state of Tux/Tux2 might have been a bit different at the time.

gerrit

   From: Gerrit Huizenga [off-list ref]
   Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:05:27 -0700
   
   So, any comments I made which might have implied that Tux/Tux2 made things
   worse have no substantiated data to prove that and it is quite possible
   that there is no such problem.  Also, this was run nearly a year ago and
   the state of Tux/Tux2 might have been a bit different at the time.

Thanks for clearing things up.