Re: [net] b58537a1f56: +89.2% netperf.Throughput_Mbps

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 06/18/2014 10:29 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jet Chen wrote:
>
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> >
> > commit b58537a1f5629bdc98a8b9dc2051ce0e952f6b4b ("net: sctp: fix permissions
> > for rto_alpha and rto_beta knobs")
>
> There's no way this is legitimate, that commit cannot possibly affect the
> performance of netperf.  I wouldn't bother to spend any time investigating
> this.

One assumption could be that netperf was setting this knob
internally and ignoring the result of it (error/success), but
that we might need to look up in netperf source to confirm.

Cheers,

Daniel
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