Re: Dual Ethernet Slowness Causing Lousy Benchmarks? (was: A very
Christopher E. Brown (cbrown@denalics.net)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:49:05 -0800 (AKDT)
> seriously, there is absolutely no 'major degradation' [i have the newest
> c't issue in front of me], it's just that we do not scale too well
> compared to 1-CPU performance (only 30-40% improvement with 4 CPUs).
>
> Such nonscaling is absolutely unacceptable to have around - so David S.
> Miller has SMP-scaled the networking code in 2.3 already - on my box and
> 2.3.9 TCP bandwith scales almost linearly on localhost - it shows almost
> no scaling on 2.2.10. (i do not have 4 100mbit ethernet connections - yet)
The fun question being how major are the changes, and is there
any possibility of getting them in 2.2.x, even if only as an outside
patch.
There are many of us who would benefit from this on boxes we
cannot run 2.3.x on.
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