From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable regression with 'tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets'
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 19:22:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120517172246.GM14498@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337273387.3403.24.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 06:49:47PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 18:40 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > try to port your patch (8d4057 tg3: provide frags as skb head) to
> > mv643xx_eth as an exercise. If I succeed and notice an improvement, I'll
> > send a patch :-)
>
>
> tg3 uses build_skb(), thats an API that allocates the skb after frame is
> filled by the device, to have less cache misses in RX path.
>
> But for most devices, netdev_alloc_skb() would be more than enough.
OK, so that's out of reach for me right now.
> I'll send a patch once tested.
I'll happily give it a try.
BTW, net-next gave me around 13-14% improvement over 3.0/3.2+splice
patches ! Now I'm seeing splice() being 75% faster than recv/send, while
it used to be slower on this hardware not that long ago! That's really
impressive, great work!
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-17 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 12:18 Stable regression with 'tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets' Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 15:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 15:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 15:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 16:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 16:40 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 16:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 16:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 17:22 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2012-05-17 17:34 ` [PATCH net-next] net: netdev_alloc_skb() use build_skb() Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 17:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-06-04 12:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 12:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 19:53 ` David Miller
2012-05-18 4:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 12:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 13:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 13:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 14:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 14:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 14:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 15:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 17:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 17:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 18:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 19:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 19:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 19:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 21:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-05 2:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 18:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 19:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 19:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 19:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 21:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-05 2:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 19:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 20:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 18:38 ` Stable regression with 'tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets' Ben Hutchings
2012-05-17 19:55 ` David Miller
2012-05-17 20:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 20:07 ` David Miller
2012-05-17 20:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 21:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 21:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 21:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 21:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:16 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:25 ` David Miller
2012-05-17 22:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:35 ` David Miller
2012-05-17 22:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:27 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-17 21:54 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 21:47 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:29 ` Willy Tarreau
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