Re: 2.6.0 NFS-server low to 0 performance

From: Mike Fedyk
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 20:41:05 EST


On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 01:38:00AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > Find out how many packets are being dropped on your two hosts with 2.4 and
> > 2.6.
>
> So, I've run 2 tcpdumps - on server and on client. Woooo... Looks bad.
>
> With 2.4 (_on the server_) the client reads about 8K at a time, which is
> sent in 5 fragments 1500 (MTU) bytes each. And that works. Also
> interesting, that fragments are sent in the reverse order.
>
> With 2.6 (on the server, same client) the client reads about 16K at a
> time, split into 11 fragments, and then packets number 9 and 10 get
> lost... This all with a StrongARM client and a PCMCIA network-card. With a
> PXA-client (400MHz compared to 200MHz SA) and an on-board eth smc91x, it
> gets the first 5 fragments, and then misses every other fragment. Again -
> in both cases I was copying files to RAM. Yes, 2.6 sends fragments in
> direct order.

Is that an x86 server, and an arm client?
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