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author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-03-26 16:28:47 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-03-26 16:35:36 +0100 |
commit | c10621e6fa8de50619d7dd28546dd3288f053ab8 (patch) | |
tree | 7ddd1e3fa87c8cce6348404163b5c266b4d8e1f6 /link.h | |
parent | c139e809f8562a2e9a1e24e86abc5a7c6eee6254 (diff) |
trafgen: keep a small initial ring buffer size to reduce cache-misses
Heavily reduce the initial ring buffer size for trafgen to just 196KiB,
so that we can heavily reduce the number of cache-misses related to
cache references. People can still overwrite this setting later on via
command line option for their specific architecture if they wish.
Perhaps the RX_RING should be checked as well in netsniff-ng though the
use case there is slightly different.
Before:
Performance counter stats for 'trafgen -i blub -o dummy0 -n100000000':
137,765,493,346 instructions:k # 0.82 insns per cycle
167,438,826,578 cycles:k # 0.000 GHz
59,508,315 branch-misses:k
361 context-switches:k
6 cpu-migrations:k
134,751,541 cache-misses:k # 85.019 % of all cache refs
158,495,358 cache-references:k
755 kmem:kmem_cache_alloc
15.139458202 seconds time elapsed
After:
Performance counter stats for 'trafgen -i blub -o dummy0 -n100000000':
137,889,782,650 instructions:k # 0.92 insns per cycle
150,239,185,971 cycles:k # 0.000 GHz
71,583,573 branch-misses:k
423 context-switches:k
7 cpu-migrations:k
60,239 cache-misses:k # 0.073 % of all cache refs
82,502,468 cache-references:k
740 kmem:kmem_cache_alloc
12.028787964 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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