Re: purpose of the skb head pool
From: Florian Weimer <hidden>
Date: 2003-05-01 10:38:38
Robert Olsson [off-list ref] writes:
2.6.66 IP. Forwarding of two input simplex flows. eth0->eth1, eth2->eth3 Fixed affinity CPU0: eth0, eth3. CPU1: eth1, eth2. Which common for routing and should be "worst case" for other use. The test should give a very high load on the packet memory system. As seen at least we don't see any improvement from skb_head_pool code. Vanilla 2.5.66 381 kpps Magazine 431 kpps Magazine + no skb_head_pool 435 kpps
Can you rerun this test with random source/destination addresses, to get more realistic (for some configurations) numbers?