>>>
>>> I'm testing on Linus' master, can we all use that please?
>>>
>>
>> [git] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>>
>> [mechine]
>> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz
>> mem 62G (66000220K)
>>
>> [system]
>> # cat /etc/redhat-release
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 Beta (Maipo)
>>
>> [commit 3684b03]
>> [root@hp-dl380pg8-11 lxin]# uname -r
>> 4.8.0-rc2.3684b03
>> [root@hp-dl380pg8-11 lxin]# cat test.sh
>> killall -0 netserver || netserver -4 &
>> netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H 127.0.0.1
>
> I just realized the test we are doing is not exactly the same.
> As the original report says:
> ip: ipv4
> runtime: 300s
> nr_threads: 200%
> cluster: cs-localhost
> send_size: 10K
> test: SCTP_STREAM_MANY
> cpufreq_governor: performance
>
> Note the nr_threads: 200%, which means to start 2 times of CPU number
> processes of netperf.
>
> In our IVB i3(2 cores, 2 threads per core) case, 8 netperf processes
> are started concurrently:
OK, understand.
>
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
> 2016-07-27 03:48:09 netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H
> 127.0.0.1 &
>
> The throughput is the average of those runs.
>
> And I think we should be doing test on:
> commit a6c2f79287 ("sctp: implement prsctp TTL policy") (the bisected one)
> and
> commit 826d253d57 ("sctp: add SCTP_PR_ASSOC_STATUS on sctp sockopt") (its
> immediate parent)
> instead of Linus' master HEAD to avoid other factors.
>
OK, I will do tests as your suggestion now, but need to rebuild again :D
can you disable pr_enable with "sysctl -w net.sctp.prsctp_enable=0",
then try again?
