I noticed that my network performance has gone down from 2.6.22
from [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 113 MBytes 95.0 Mbits/sec
to [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 75.7 MBytes 63.3 Mbits/sec
with 2.6.23-rc1 (and 2.6.23-rc8), as measured with iperf.
I did a git bisect today and tracked it back to the commit where CFS
was enabled ("sched: cfs core code; apply the CFS core code",
commit dd41f596cda0d7d6e4a8b139ffdfabcefdd46528). I also compiled a
kernel from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
but things don't improve.
This is on a Thecus N2100, an ARM (Intel IOP32x) based storage device
with a r8169 card, SATA disks and 512 MB RAM. My config is attached.
What kind of information can I supply so you can track this down?
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/