Re: [Bloat] tiny monsters: multicast packets

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

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sorry, I meant to reply all.

Thanks for so quickly seeing the real cause of the upper limit.

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>wrote:
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>> >> Are you seeing high CPU load in interrupt context?  (Run top.)
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>> > Yes. 99% sirq.
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>> Could be due to a simplistic Ethernet driver.  If you have the time and
>> energy, you may want to ask on dev.openwrt.org.
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>> I will have some energy and time, shortly.
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> That said, several great openwrt people are on this list, and may be able
> to weigh in.
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> I'm glad that the limit of about 130Mbit on the ethernet side for gigE
> could be mitigated with a better driver. (and that said, 130Mbit is "good
> enough" for most of the world)
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> On the other hand, making the switch that lays underneath this driver, work
> well, looks hard.
>
> Does anybody here speak enough Taiwanese to get enough detail on the
> rtl8366s to see what it would take to enable fair queueing and port
> mirroring?
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> or have a relationship with realtek they could use to get this info?
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> The datasheet has insufficient detail, and yet the switch seems enormously
> capable, at least in theory. The kind of numbers under load I've seen thus
> far (ranging from .9ms to 170ms) suggest port starvation.
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> http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8366s_8366sr_datasheet_vpre-1.4_20071022.pdf
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>>  -- Juliusz
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