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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop@mellanox.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: GRO aggregation
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:35:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347392132.13103.663.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36F7E4A28C18BE4DB7C86058E7B607241E622083@MTRDAG01.mtl.com>

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 19:24 +0000, Shlomo Pongratz wrote:

> 
> I see that in ixgbe the weight for the NAPI is 64 (netif_napi_add). So
> if packets are arriving in high rate then an the CPU is fast enough to
> collect the packets as they arrive, assuming packets continue to
> arrives while the NAPI runs. Then it should have aggregate more. So we
> will have less passes trough the stack.
> 

As I said, _if_ your cpu was loaded by other stuff, then you would see
biggest GRO packets.

GRO is not : "We want to kill latency and have big packets just because
its better"

Its more like : If load is big enough, try to aggregate TCP frames in
less skbs.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-11 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-11 13:45 GRO aggregation Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-11 18:20 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2012-09-11 18:41   ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 18:48     ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2012-09-11 18:51       ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 18:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-11 18:49   ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 19:01     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-11 19:24       ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 19:35         ` David Miller
2012-09-11 19:35         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-09-12  9:23           ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-12  9:33             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-12 14:41               ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-12 16:23                 ` Rick Jones
2012-09-12 16:34                   ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-12 16:52                     ` Rick Jones
2012-09-13  6:36                       ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-13  8:11                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-13  9:59                           ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-13 12:05                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-13 12:34                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-13 12:47                               ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-13 13:22                                 ` Eric Dumazet

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