From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch.
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:23:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060818192356.GD26889@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155771820.11312.116.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:43:40AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> Sounds good (without actually looking at the code though :), that was a
> long required improvement to that driver. Also, we should probably look
> into using NAPI polling for tx completion queue as well, no ?
Just for a lark, I tried using NAPI polling, while disabling all TX
interrupts. Performance was a disaster: 8Mbits/sec, fom which I conclude
that the tcp ack packets do not flow back fast enough to allw reliance
on NAPI polling for transmit.
I was able to get as high as 960 Mbits/sec in unusal circumstances,
at 100% cpu usage. Oprofile indicates that the next major improvement
would be to add scatter/gather, which I'll take a shot at next week,
if I don't get interrupted. However, I'm getting interrupted a lot these
days.
--linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-18 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-11 17:03 [PATCH 0/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet driver fixes Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 17:06 ` [PATCH 1/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet burst alignment patch Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet low watermark patch Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-18 19:23 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2006-08-18 21:25 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 22:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-18 22:51 ` David Miller
2006-08-18 23:29 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-18 23:45 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-19 4:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-22 0:13 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-22 0:30 ` David Miller
2006-08-19 4:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-11 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet stop error printing patch Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 4/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 18:00 ` Olof Johansson
2006-08-11 18:50 ` James K Lewis
2006-08-11 19:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-15 19:05 ` Olof Johansson
2006-08-16 0:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-08-11 17:42 ` [PATCH 0/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet driver fixes jschopp
2006-08-11 17:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-11 19:31 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-11 20:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 16:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-16 20:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 20:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-16 20:46 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 21:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 21:32 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 22:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 22:29 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 22:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 23:30 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:32 ` David Miller
2006-08-17 0:23 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:24 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 22:55 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-16 23:47 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 23:08 ` Rick Jones
2006-08-16 21:58 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-16 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking Linas Vepstas
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