Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/4] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue May 21 2013 - 09:31:47 EST


On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 16:15 +0300, Alex Rosenbaum wrote:
> On 5/21/2013 3:29 PM, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> > What benchmarks are you using to test poll/select/epoll?
> for epoll/select latency tests we are using sockperf as performance
> latency tool: https://code.google.com/p/sockperf/
> It is a client-server based tool and it supported ping-pong, throughput,
> and under-load test type.
> For epoll, you will need to define a 'feedfile' ("-f filepathname")
> which has a list of TCP and/or UDP socket and defined your IO mux type
> ("-F epoll").

I totally agree, most modern applications use poll/select/epoll,
and a fair amount of sockets per task, sendfile()/vmsplice()/... and
netperf is not using same paths.

Thanks Alex !



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