From: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay•com>
Cc: kchang@athenacr•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multicast packet loss
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:22:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B6F645.2070408@athenacr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B5FA84.9000301@cosmosbay.com>
Hi Eric,
FYI: with your patch applied and lockdep enabled, I see:
[ 39.114628] ================================================
[ 39.121964] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
[ 39.127704] ------------------------------------------------
[ 39.133461] msgtest/5242 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
[ 39.140132] 1 lock held by msgtest/5242:
[ 39.144287] #0: (clock-AF_INET){-.-?}, at: [<ffffffff8041f5b9>] sock_def_readable+0x19/0xb0
I can't reproduced this with the mcasttest program yet, it
was with an internal test program which does some userspace
processing on the messages. I'll let you know if I find a way
to reproduce it with a simple program I can share.
> Well, smp_affinity could help in my opininon if you dedicate
> one cpu for the NIC, and others for user apps, if the average
> work done per packet is large. If load is light, its better
> to use the same cpu to perform all the work, since no expensive
> bus trafic is needed between cpu to exchange memory lines.
I tried this setup as well: an 8-core box with 4 userspace
processes, each affined to an individual CPU1-4. The IRQ was on
CPU0. On most kernels, this setup loses fewer packets than the default
affinity (though they both lose some). With your patch enabled, the
default affinity loses 0 packets, and this setup loses some.
Thanks,
Brian Bloniarz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-10 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-30 17:49 Multicast packet loss Kenny Chang
2009-01-30 19:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 19:17 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-01-30 20:03 ` Neil Horman
2009-01-30 22:29 ` Kenny Chang
2009-01-30 22:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-31 16:03 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-02 16:13 ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-02 16:48 ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-03 11:55 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-03 15:20 ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-04 1:15 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-04 16:07 ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-04 16:46 ` Wesley Chow
2009-02-04 18:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-05 13:33 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-05 13:46 ` Wesley Chow
2009-02-05 13:29 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-01 12:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 13:45 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-02 16:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 18:22 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-02 19:51 ` Wes Chow
2009-02-02 20:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 21:09 ` Wes Chow
2009-02-02 21:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-03 17:34 ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-04 1:21 ` Neil Horman
2009-02-26 17:15 ` Kenny Chang
2009-02-28 8:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-01 17:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-04 8:16 ` David Miller
2009-03-04 8:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-07 7:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-08 16:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-09 2:49 ` David Miller
2009-03-09 6:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-13 21:51 ` David Miller
2009-03-13 22:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-13 22:38 ` David Miller
2009-03-13 22:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-14 9:03 ` [PATCH] net: reorder fields of struct socket Eric Dumazet
2009-03-16 2:59 ` David Miller
2009-03-16 22:22 ` Multicast packet loss Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17 10:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-17 11:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17 11:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-17 15:00 ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-03-17 15:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17 19:39 ` David Stevens
2009-03-17 21:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-03 19:28 ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-05 13:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-06 21:53 ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-06 22:12 ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-07 20:08 ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-04-08 8:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-09 22:56 ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-03-10 5:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-10 23:22 ` Brian Bloniarz [this message]
2009-03-11 3:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-12 15:47 ` Brian Bloniarz
2009-03-12 16:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-27 18:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-27 18:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-27 19:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-27 20:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-27 21:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-02 13:53 ` Eric Dumazet
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