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Introduction
Netperf3
is a network benchmark used to measure network throughput on different
platforms. Netperf3 is available at www.netperf.org under
experimental directory. Netperf3
does not have many of the features like the previous versions of netperf.
However netperf3 supports both multi-thread and multi-process model. Netperf3
is extended to support multiple adapters on both the server and the client. We
are also in the process of adding synchronizing multiple clients and porting
some of the features such as tcp_rr, tcp_crr, udp_rr, convergence etc.,
to netperf3. Netperf3 with
multi-adapter support version is used for TCP Streaming test to measure
the network performance of Linux 2.4.x kernel. The main goal here is to
drive the server to its full capacity.
A
patch to netperf3 can be found here:netperf3_patch
Results
- Sep 2002 Skb init patch results:skbinit.html
-
Aug
2002 Slab cache scalability (work in progress):slabcache.html
- July 2002 TCP IPV4 TCP_Stream comparison on 2.4.17, 2.5.25 and 2.5.25+NAPI enablement netperf2.5.25results.htm
- May 2002 TCP IPV6 TCP_Stream results on 2.4.17 kernel with USAGI-linux24-s20020415-2.4.17 patch netperf3_ipv6_2.4.17results.htm
- Feb 2002 Copy_to_user patch created and poste to lkml mailing list in June 2002
- Aug 2001TCP Stream on different kernels - 2.4.0, 2.4.4 and 2.4.7 Netperf3_Kernels.html
- July 2001 Comparison charts between NO Affinity and both (IRQ/Process) Affinity Netperf3_Charts.html
- June 2001 – TCP Stream Multi-adapter test with IRQ/Process affinity applied on 2P and 4P Netperf3_TCP_Affinity.html
- June 2001 – TCP Stream Multi-adapter test baseline data collected on UP, 2P and 4P Netperf3_TCP_Baseline.html
Test Environment
- Hardware environment, operating systems, network used for this workload is at Hardware.html
Resources
- Run rules for netperf3 multi-adapter TCP Stream test is at netperf3_runrules.html
- Test scripts are at: scriptfile
- External postings:
- Relevant links: Tcpip performance on 2.4. and 2.5 Linux kernel OLS paper at : http://www.linux.org.uk/~ajh/ols2002_proceedings.pdf.gz