Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/4] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

From: Eliezer Tamir <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:06:51 +0300

On 21/05/2013 16:15, Alex Rosenbaum wrote:
> On 5/21/2013 3:29 PM, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
>> What benchmarks are you using to test poll/select/epoll?
> for epoll/select latency tests we are using sockperf as performance
> latency tool: https://code.google.com/p/sockperf/
> It is a client-server based tool and it supported ping-pong, throughput,
> and under-load test type.
> For epoll, you will need to define a 'feedfile' ("-f filepathname")
> which has a list of TCP and/or UDP socket and defined your IO mux type
> ("-F epoll").

Thank you!
This is very helpful.

With sockperf i can directly observe how poll/select/epoll are behaving.
I can see some improvement in all of them but clearly more work is 
needed here.

-Eliezer