From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Gortmaker <penguin@muskoka.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.9 Use skb_padto() in drivers/net/8390.c]
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:45:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105197689.10505.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41DF9AC1.2010609@muskoka.com>
On Sad, 2005-01-08 at 08:33, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Is it possible that skb_padto has since got its act together? Reason I
> ask is that I just dusted off a crusty 386dx40 (doesn't get much older
Could be - kmalloc has probably improved but the skbuffs have got far
more complex
> than that) with a wd8013. As a basic test, I did ttcp Tx tests with small
> packets and they came out to all intents and purposes, identical. Kernel
> was 2.6.10, with stack vs skb_padto, each size test ran 3 times, even tested
> packets bigger than ETH_ZLEN as a (hopefully) invariant. I've attached the
> edited down results below.
What are you testing ? I don't see the relationship between network
throughput and efficiency on this device.
Drop it on a pentium or late 486 and use the tsc to compare the two code
paths. One is much much more efficienct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-08 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-01-08 8:33 ` [PATCH] 2.6.9 Use skb_padto() in drivers/net/8390.c] Paul Gortmaker
2005-01-08 15:45 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-10 2:41 ` [PATCH] 2.6.9 Use skb_padto() in drivers/net/8390.c Paul Gortmaker
2005-01-10 18:28 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-19 5:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-19 14:06 ` Alan Cox
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