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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Mandeep Singh Baines <mandeep.baines@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniele Venzano <venza@brownhat.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, rick.jones2@hp.com, msb@google.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, grundler@google.com,
	robert.olsson@its.uu.se, jeff@garzik.org, nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [sis900] convert to NAPI, WAS Re: pktgen terminating condition
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:03:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188911036.4483.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070904032036.GA11153@ludhiana>

On Mon, 2007-03-09 at 20:20 -0700, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:

> I didn't see much saving in interrupts on my machine (too fast, I guess). 

You could try the idea suggested by Dave earlier and just turn interupts
for every nth packet. That should cut down the numbers.

> I did see a significant boost to tx performance by optimizing start_xmit: more
> than double pps in pktgen.

148Kpps on a slow piece of hardware aint bad - Good Stuff. I wonder how
much CPU is being abused.

If you wanna go one extra mile (separate future patch): get rid of that
tx lock and use netif_tx_lock on the interupt path. Look at some sane
driver like tg3 for reference.

cheers,
jamal


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-04 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-01 10:47 pktgen terminating condition Daniele Venzano
2007-09-04  3:20 ` [PATCH] [sis900] convert to NAPI, WAS " Mandeep Singh Baines
2007-09-04 13:03   ` jamal [this message]
2007-09-04 17:21     ` Mandeep Baines
2007-09-04 16:56   ` Daniele Venzano
2007-09-04 17:24     ` Mandeep Baines
2007-09-05  7:44     ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2007-09-05 12:03       ` James Chapman
2007-09-05 12:33         ` jamal
2007-09-05 13:55           ` James Chapman
2007-09-05 14:21             ` jamal
2007-09-06  5:06               ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2007-09-06 13:22                 ` jamal

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