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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] GRO scalability
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:28:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349720937.21172.3573.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5073199F.6040408@hp.com>

On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 11:21 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:

> Did I then mis-interpret:
> 
> > 2) Use a LRU list to eventually be able to 'flush' too old packets,
> >    even if the napi never completes. Each time we process a new packet,
> >    being a GRO candidate or not, we increment a napi->sequence, and we
> >    flush the oldest packet in gro_lru_list if its own sequence is too
> >    old.
> 
> in your initial RFC email?  Because I took that as flushing a given 
> packet if N packets have come through since that packet was queued to 
> await coalescing.

Yes, this was refined in the patch I sent.

Currently using jiffies, but my plan is trying to use get_cycles() or
ktime_get(), after some experiments, allowing cycles/ns resolution.

(One ktime_get() per napi batch seems OK)

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-08 18:29 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 [this message]
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
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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