• Ashley@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I watched a video on this, the way they managed it was by reordering variables in structs. That’s kinda insane

  • gerdesj@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    9th Jan …

    “A hell of an improvement especially for the AMD EPYC servers”

    Look closely at the stats in the headers of those three tables of test results. The NICs have different line speeds and the L3 cache sizes are different too. IPv4 and 6 for one and only IPv6 for the other.

    Not exactly like for like!

    • themoken@startrek.website
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      10 months ago

      This isn’t a benchmark of those systems, it’s showing that the code didn’t regress on either hardware set with some anecdotal data. It makes sense they’re not like for like.

    • quinkin@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Why would you compare between the tables? It’s the relative change in each line that is of interest.

    • dana@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Each table contains one column with the patches and one column without the patches - the hardware is unchanged. The different tables are to measure the impact of the patches across different hardware.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    This effort has been around optimizing cacheline consumption and adding safeguards to ensure future changes don’t regress.

    In turn this optimizing of core networking structures is causing TCP performance with many concurrent connections to increase by as much as 40% or more!

    This patch series attempts to reorganize the core networking stack variables to minimize cacheline consumption during the phase of data transfer.

    Meanwhile new Ethernet driver hardware support in Linux 6.8 includes the Octeon CN10K devices, Broadcom 5760X P7, Qualcomm SM8550 SoC, and Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY.

    NVIDIA Mellanox Ethernet data center switches can also now enjoy firmware updates without a reboot.

    The full list of new networking patches for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window can be found via today’s pull request.


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