[sr-dev] git:andrei/raw_sock: core: basic raw socket support functions

[Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul]

On Jun 14, 2010 at 12:37, marius zbihlei <marius.zbihlei at 1and1.ro> wrote:
> Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:
> >Anyway from the coding point of view I'm almost ready, the testing will
> >be more difficult.
> >
> >Andrei
> >
> 
> Hello Andrei,
> 
> I might help with testing and providing some performance numbers.

Thanks a lot!

> Unfortunately I only have access to some quad core Xeon servers, not
> 8 cores.
> If the weird UDP behavior appears also on 4 cores(less lock
> contention), I can run a test plan.
> 
> My idea is to have several UDP workers (I plan to use 8- this will
> allow the kernel to distribute them evenly on all 4 CPUs - as the
> machine is idle). I plan to test using other 2-3 machines for
> sending SIP messages (using sipp or sipsak). Ser will just send some
> replies with some error code. I will measure the  throughput over a
> 1 minute interval on the ser machine,  with both current UDP sender
> and the new UDP over raw sock sender.
> 
> If this is ok then in the afternoon I will bring some results. Any
> suggestion regarding the test plan is welcomed.

Well, while there is little more to be done, the code is not yet testing
ready (a few small things like on-send fragmentation and integration in 
 ser are still missing). I'll have it ready sometime this week, but I'm
 not sure I'll have time do it today or tomorrow.

Andrei