On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 07:56 -0500, Thomas Graf wrote:

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:32:25PM -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:

quoted

Yes, we are still planning this.  The UDP implementation for my
earlier patch should be usable to try for DNS/UDP-- this is in fact
where we saw a major performance gain.  Eric Dumazet had some nice
improvements that should probably be looked at also.

I can confirm this.

Serious scalability issues have been reported on a 12 core system
running bind 9.7-2. The system was only able to deliver ~110K queries
per second.

Using your SO_REUSEPORT patch and a modified bind using it. The same
system is able to deliver ~650K queries per seconds while maxing out
all cores completely.

I think the idea is goodness, but will ask, was the (first) bottleneck
actually in the kernel, or was it in bind itself?  I've seen
single-instance, single-byte burst-mode netperf TCP_RR do in excess of
300K transactions per second (with TCP_NODELAY set) on an X5560 core.

ftp://ftp.netperf.org/netperf/misc/dl380g6_X5560_rhel54_ad386_cxgb3_1.4.1.2_b2b_to_same_agg_1500mtu_20100513-2.csv

and that was with now ancient RHEL5.4 bits...  yes, there is a bit of
apples, oranges and kumquats but still, I am wondering if this didn't
also "work around" some internal BIND scaling issues as well.

rick jones

Tom, Bill: do you have a timeline for merging this? Especially the
UDP bits?

-Thomas
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