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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [RFC] I/OAT: Handle incoming udp through ioatdma
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:43:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196379815.4450.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAE9DCEF64577A439B3A37F36F9B691C03853146@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Thu, 2007-29-11 at 12:08 -0800, Nelson, Shannon wrote:
> [RFC] I/OAT: Handle incoming udp through ioatdma
> 
> From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
> 
> If the incoming udp packet is larger than sysctl_udp_dma_copybreak, try
> pushing it through the ioatdma asynchronous memcpy.  This is very much
> the
> same as the tcp copy offload.  This is an RFC because we know there are
> stability problems under high traffic.


What stability problems?

Is there some magic sysctl_udp_dma_copybreak threshold value where you
start seeing the benefit of IOAT-ing? Since you mentioned
"students"<evil grin here>, it would be interesting to see data where
udp starts benefitting.


cheers,
jamal


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-29 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-29 20:08 [PATCH -mm] [RFC] I/OAT: Handle incoming udp through ioatdma Nelson, Shannon
2007-11-29 20:17 ` Shannon Nelson
2007-11-29 23:43 ` jamal [this message]
2007-11-30  1:27   ` Nelson, Shannon

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