On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:45:44 EDT, Paul Moore said:

> While I have been doing to some casual performance test of the NetLabel
> patch I have never posted anything to the list, so for the first time
> here are some NetLabel/CIPSO numbers ...

Many thanks..

>                  (in 10^6 bits/sec)           (rate / sec)
>   TEST      tcp_stream      udp_stream     tcp_rr       udp_rr
>  =================================================================
>   NoPatch    941.52          961.61         10778.58     10901.03
>   Disable    941.53          961.60         10814.46     11129.77
>   Unlabel    941.51          961.61         10769.00     10896.26

The fact the first 3 are all within noise of each other is a good sign.
(I'm using Disable-NoPatch as a rough indication of noise...)

>   C_NoCat    932.30          954.04          9904.58     10106.00

Not bad - this measures just our infrastructure.. And it's certainly non-zero
but probably within the realm of tolerable for sites that need CIPSO.

A second pass at benchmarking this should probably note whether the slowdown
is primarily a CPU-full issue, or an added-latency issue. If it's just the
TCP window relating to a different bandwidth*RTT product, it has different
implications for servicing multiple connections.  It's quite possible
for a 1% increase in CPU use to cost us 5% throughput - but if the CPU is
still at 80%, that means we can take on another 20 connections and each sees
the same 5% drop (and yes, I'm glossing over the queuing issues of bursty
traffic).

>   C_FlCat    625.46          935.52          9110.29      9262.92
>   C_F_LxV    686.46          935.53          9325.37      9484.93

Any idea why the tcp_rr only dropped about 14%, but tcp_stream dropped 30%?
I'd expect the rate to be more sensitive to it, because the testing is
per-packet, not per-KB?

>   C_F_NoC    328.69          935.53          6258.61      6415.35

I tuned in late - are there any real configurations where a site would
actually want cipso_cache_enable=0 set?  Or is this an indication that
the option needs to be nailed to 1?

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