Re: Netperf TCP_RR(loopback) 10% regression in2.6.24-rc6, comparing with 2.6.22

[Zhang, Yanmin]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 09:56 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> >>The test command is:
> >>#sudo taskset -c 7 ./netserver
> >>#sudo taskset -c 0 ./netperf -t TCP_RR -l 60 -H 127.0.0.1 -i 50,3 -I 99,5 -- -r 1,1
> 
> A couple of comments/questions on the command lines:
Thanks for your kind comments.

> 
> *) netperf/netserver support CPU affinity within themselves with the 
> global -T option to netperf.  Is the result with taskset much different? 
>    The equivalent to the above would be to run netperf with:
> 
> ./netperf -T 0,7 ..
I checked the source codes and didn't find this option.
I use netperf V2.3 (I found the number in the makefile).

> .
> 
> The one possibly salient difference between the two is that when done 
> within netperf, the initial process creation will take place wherever 
> the scheduler wants it.
> 
> *) The -i option to set the confidence iteration count will silently cap 
> the max at 30.
Indeed, you are right.

-yanmin


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