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

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:38:49 +0200

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