From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:08:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178813291.4062.32.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510154804.GA17474@2ka.mipt.ru>
On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 19:48 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> IMHO if you do not see in profile anything related to driver's xmit
> function, it does not require to be fixed.
True, but i think there may be value in amortizing the cost towards
the driver.
i.e If you grab a lock and send X packets vs a single packet, depending
on the cost of the lock you may observe a reduction in CPU.
I have tried similar experiments in the past and observed zero
improvements in sane machines, but huge improvements on insane machines.
Slides on my work here (just jump to about slide 93):
http://vger.kernel.org/jamal_netconf2006.sxi
One thought i had at the time was perhaps the e1000 DMA setup/teardown
was very inefficient.
As the slides indicate i was trying to get throughput improvements but
failed to seen any on sane machines.
A suggestion made to me was to look at CPU utilization as a metric.
Unfortunately i havent had any chance yet.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 14:53 [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits Krishna Kumar
2007-05-10 15:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-10 15:22 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 15:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-10 16:08 ` jamal [this message]
2007-05-10 17:19 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:07 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-05-10 19:43 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:11 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:14 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 20:15 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:15 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:21 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:25 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 5:22 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:27 ` jamal
2007-05-10 20:37 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 20:40 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 20:57 ` David Miller
2007-05-11 6:07 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:21 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:20 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:35 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 5:43 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 5:57 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 6:06 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 6:29 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 6:52 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 18:13 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 18:20 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:32 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 18:40 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 18:59 ` Ian McDonald
2007-05-10 19:21 ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-05-10 19:26 ` Ian McDonald
2007-05-10 20:32 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 20:49 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:02 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 21:14 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 2:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-11 5:01 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-11 5:04 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 9:18 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 9:52 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 11:30 ` jamal
2007-05-11 11:53 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-05-11 12:15 ` jamal
2007-05-10 21:27 ` David Stevens
2007-05-10 21:40 ` David Miller
2007-05-10 21:50 ` Gagan Arneja
2007-05-10 22:06 ` David Miller
2007-05-11 9:46 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-10 21:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-10 22:09 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:45 ` Rick Jones
2007-05-10 21:53 ` David Stevens
2007-05-10 20:21 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-11 7:30 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:21 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-11 9:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11 8:32 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 9:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11 8:50 ` Krishna Kumar2
2007-05-11 11:16 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-13 6:00 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-15 16:25 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 20:18 ` David Miller
2007-05-15 20:52 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 21:48 ` Michael Chan
2007-05-15 21:08 ` Roland Dreier
2007-05-15 22:05 ` Michael Chan
2007-05-15 21:28 ` David Miller
2007-05-18 7:04 ` Michael Chan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-11 7:14 Krishna Kumar2
[not found] <OF0CAD6D87.DBE62968-ON872572DC.0073646A-882572DC.0073BEC2@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:17 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <OFF5654BB8.74EC8DCB-ON872572DC.00752079-882572DC.00756B23@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:25 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <OF21D475A2.5E5C88DE-ON872572DC.00763DE4-882572DC.00768A7E@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 21:38 ` David Miller
2007-05-15 21:32 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <OF6757F56D.EE5984FD-ON872572DC.0081026C-882572DC.00814B8F@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-15 23:36 ` David Miller
2007-05-21 7:56 ` Herbert Xu
[not found] ` <OF9ABCD08D.2CD1B193-ON872572E3.007A6FC1-882572E3.007ACE1A@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-22 22:36 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <OFCF3EB7F8.9740C0C7-ON872572E3.007DADF6-882572E3.007E0E7B@us.ibm.com>
2007-05-22 23:04 ` David Miller
2007-05-22 23:12 ` Herbert Xu
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