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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: gro: selective flush of packets
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 07:29:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349587787.21172.1908.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121007003208.GA31839@gondor.apana.org.au>

	On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 08:32 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 08:08:49PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > @@ -3981,8 +3996,17 @@ static void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
> >  				local_irq_enable();
> >  				napi_complete(n);
> >  				local_irq_disable();
> > -			} else
> > +			} else {
> > +				if (n->gro_list) {
> > +					/* flush too old packets
> > +					 * If HZ < 1000, flush all packets.
> > +					 */
> > +					local_irq_enable();
> > +					napi_gro_flush(n, HZ >= 1000);
> > +					local_irq_disable();
> > +				}
> >  				list_move_tail(&n->poll_list, &sd->poll_list);
> > +			}
> 
> Why don't we just always flush everything?

This is what I tried first, but it lowered performance on several
typical workloads.

Using this simple heuristic increases performance.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-07  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-27 12:48 [PATCH net-next 3/3] ipv4: gre: add GRO capability Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 17:52 ` Jesse Gross
2012-09-27 18:08   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 18:19     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 22:03       ` Jesse Gross
2012-09-28 14:04         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 20:56           ` Jesse Gross
2012-10-05 14:52             ` [RFC] GRO scalability Eric Dumazet
2012-10-05 18:16               ` Rick Jones
2012-10-05 19:00                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-05 19:35                   ` Rick Jones
2012-10-05 20:06                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 16:40                       ` Rick Jones
2012-10-08 16:59                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 17:49                           ` Rick Jones
2012-10-08 17:55                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 17:56                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 18:58                                 ` [RFC] napi: limit GRO latency Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-08 19:10                                   ` David Miller
2012-10-08 19:12                                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-08 19:30                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 19:40                                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-08 19:46                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 19:21                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 18:21                               ` [RFC] GRO scalability Rick Jones
2012-10-08 18:28                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06  4:11               ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-06  5:08                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06  5:14                   ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-06  6:22                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06  7:00                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06 10:56                         ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-06 18:08                           ` [PATCH] net: gro: selective flush of packets Eric Dumazet
2012-10-07  0:32                             ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-07  5:29                               ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-10-08  7:39                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 16:42                                   ` Rick Jones
2012-10-08 17:10                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 18:52                             ` David Miller
2012-09-27 22:03     ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] ipv4: gre: add GRO capability Jesse Gross
2012-10-01 21:04 ` David Miller

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