From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
andi@firstfloor.org, jeff@garzik.org, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, gaagaan@gmail.com,
Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
rdreier@cisco.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com,
mcarlson@broadcom.com, jagana@us.ibm.com,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, mchan@broadcom.com, tgraf@suug.ch,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com, sri@us.ibm.com, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:02:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010120215.7ec19323.billfink@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071009.170435.43504422.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:56:46 -0400
>
> > if the h/ware queues are full because of link pressure etc, you drop. We
> > drop today when the s/ware queues are full. The driver txmit lock takes
> > place of the qdisc queue lock etc. I am assuming there is still need for
> > that locking. The filter/classification scheme still works as is and
> > select classes which map to rings. tc still works as is etc.
>
> I understand your suggestion.
>
> We have to keep in mind, however, that the sw queue right now is 1000
> packets. I heavily discourage any driver author to try and use any
> single TX queue of that size. Which means that just dropping on back
> pressure might not work so well.
>
> Or it might be perfect and signal TCP to backoff, who knows! :-)
I can't remember the details anymore, but for 10-GigE, I have encountered
cases where I was able to significantly increase TCP performance by
increasing the txqueuelen to 10000, which is the setting I now use for
any 10-GigE testing.
-Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-08 18:26 [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching jamal
2007-10-08 19:46 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-08 20:48 ` jamal
2007-10-08 21:26 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-10-08 22:34 ` jamal
2007-10-08 22:36 ` [ofa-general] " Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-08 22:33 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-08 23:40 ` jamal
2007-10-09 1:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 1:41 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-10-09 2:01 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 2:03 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 2:04 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 2:15 ` jamal
2007-10-09 2:16 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 2:19 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-09 2:20 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 2:45 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-10-09 2:43 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 2:46 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 2:12 ` [ofa-general] " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 2:46 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 18:48 ` [ofa-general] " Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-09 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 19:07 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-09 2:14 ` [ofa-general] " jamal
2007-10-09 2:16 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 2:47 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-10-09 16:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-09 18:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-09 18:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-09 20:43 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 20:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-09 21:22 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 21:56 ` jamal
2007-10-10 0:04 ` David Miller
2007-10-10 0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-10 0:50 ` David Miller
2007-10-10 9:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-10 9:25 ` David Miller
2007-10-10 10:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-10 10:44 ` David Miller
2007-10-10 13:08 ` jamal
2007-10-10 22:37 ` David Miller
2007-10-10 15:35 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-10 16:02 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-10 16:42 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-10-10 9:53 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-12 16:08 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2007-10-12 17:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-12 18:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-12 18:27 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-10 16:02 ` Bill Fink [this message]
2007-10-10 22:53 ` David Miller
2007-10-11 6:52 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 1:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 10:58 ` [ofa-general] " Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 11:02 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 11:20 ` [ofa-general] " Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 11:21 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 11:24 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 12:44 ` [ofa-general] " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 12:55 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-09 13:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 20:14 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 20:20 ` [ofa-general] " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-09 21:25 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 20:22 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 20:51 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 21:40 ` Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 22:44 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 22:46 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] IPoIB: Fix unused variable warning Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 22:47 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/4] ibm_emac: Convert to use napi_struct independent of struct net_device Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 22:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] ibm_new_emac: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER() use Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 22:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] ibm_emac: Convert to use napi_struct independent of struct net_device Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 22:51 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 23:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] IPoIB: Fix unused variable warning David Miller
2007-10-10 0:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-10 0:47 ` [ofa-general] " Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-08 13:17 [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching jamal
2007-10-09 3:09 ` [ofa-general] " Krishna Kumar2
2007-10-09 13:10 ` jamal
2007-09-14 9:00 [PATCH 0/10 REV5] Implement skb batching and support in IPoIB/E1000 Krishna Kumar
2007-09-16 23:17 ` [ofa-general] " David Miller
2007-09-17 0:29 ` jamal
2007-09-23 17:53 ` [PATCHES] TX batching jamal
2007-09-23 17:56 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock jamal
2007-09-23 17:58 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/4] [NET_BATCH] Introduce batching interface jamal
2007-09-23 18:00 ` [PATCH 3/4][NET_BATCH] net core use batching jamal
2007-09-30 18:52 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] " jamal
2007-10-01 4:11 ` Bill Fink
2007-10-01 13:30 ` jamal
2007-10-02 4:25 ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-10-02 13:20 ` jamal
2007-10-03 5:29 ` [ofa-general] " Bill Fink
2007-10-01 10:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-01 13:21 ` jamal
2007-10-08 5:03 ` Krishna Kumar2
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