Re: [PATCH v3 0/10] bql: Byte Queue Limits

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mardi 22 novembre 2011 à 21:52 -0800, Tom Herbert a écrit :
> Changes from last version:
>   - Rebase to 3.2
>   - Added CONFIG_BQL and CONFIG_DQL
>   - Added some cache alignment in struct dql, to split read only, writeable
>     elements, and split those elements written on transmit from those
>     written at transmit completion (suggested by Eric).
>   - Split out adding xps_queue_release as its own patch.
>   - Some minor performance changes, use likely and unlikely for some
>     conditionals.
>   - Cleaned up some "show" functions for bql (pointed out by Ben).
>   - Change netdev_tx_completed_queue to do check xoff, check
>     availability, and then check xoff again.  This to prevent potential
>     race conditions with netdev_sent_queue (as Ben pointed out).
>   - Did some more testing trying to evaluate overhead of BQL in the
>     transmit path.  I see about 1-3% degradation in CPU utilization
>     and maximum pps when BQL is enabled.  Any ideas to beat this
>     down as much as possible would be appreciated!
>   - Added high versus low priority traffic test to results below.
>   

Excellent, I plan to review and test this today

Thanks !