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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 06:28:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305865685.3156.46.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD5B36C.2020407@candelatech.com>

Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 17:18 -0700, Ben Greear a écrit :

> I applied this to today's wireless-testing kernel.  There is a consistent
> speedup in deleting mac-vlans!  I wouldn't read much into changes in
> creating macvlans or adding IPs..those numbers just jump around a bit
> from run to run.
> 
> Before the patch:
> Deleted 500 macvlan in 25.424282 seconds. (0.050848564 per interface)
> 
> 
> After the patch:
> 
> Deleted 500 macvlan in 21.831413 seconds. (0.043662826 per interface)
> 

Thanks for testing !

My ultimate goal would be to reduce vlan/macvlan delete latency from 50
ms to less than 5 ms. Step by step...

(But this will wait after this merge window, since next changes are a
bit more complex)

Stay tuned ;)




  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19 22:24 [PATCH net-next-2.6] macvlan: remove one synchronize_rcu() call Eric Dumazet
2011-05-20  0:18 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-20  4:28   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-05-20  4:33 ` David Miller

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