* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> [2007-09-26 13:21]:
> > > I noticed on the iperf website a patch which contains sched_yield().
> > > http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf2.0/patch-iperf-linux-2.6.21.txt
>
> great! Could you try this too:
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield
>
> does it fix iperf performance too (with the yield patch applied to
> iperf)?
Yes, this gives me good performance too.
> I think the real fix would be for iperf to use blocking network IO
> though, or maybe to use a POSIX mutex or POSIX semaphores.
So it's definitely not a bug in the kernel, only in iperf?
(CCing Stephen Hemminger who wrote the iperf patch.)
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