Subject: Re: raising MSIZE to 256
To: Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/27/2000 14:22:07
>> I'd like to propose to raise MSIZE (non-cluster mbuf size) to 256
>> for all ports. IPv4 with IPsec should perform better (depending on
>> how much encapsulation you plan to add), and IPv6 should perform better.
>> comments?
>Do you have any statistics about the mbuf usage?
based on statistics on transpacific backbone, on Jan 1 2000:
http://tracer.csl.sony.co.jp/mawi/samplepoint-A/2000/2000010113
# of packet sum coverage
[ 32- 63]: 457221 457221 21%
[ 64- 127]: 305510 762731 36%
[ 128- 255]: 118732 881463 42%
[ 256- 511]: 83766 965229 46%
[ 512- 1023]: 771087 1736316 82%
[ 1024- 2047]: 358876 2095192 100%
we may need more detailed histogram, but anyway, this gives us some
idea.
>Since our MINCLSIZE is now defined as (MHLEN + 1), I hope raising MSIZE
>will also help to reduce the memory usage for limited memory PC.
when i commit some more changes to IPv4/v6 processing code, we will
start using m_pulldown and MINCLSIZE will go badk to MHLEN + MLEN + 1.
itojun