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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: simple_tx_hash shouldn't hash inside fragments
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:06:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080920.220624.177591478.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080919004337.10035.3409.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:43:37 -0700

> Currently simple_tx_hash is hashing inside of udp fragments.  As a result
> packets are getting getting sent to all queues when they shouldn't be.
> This causes a serious performance regression which can be seen by sending
> UDP frames larger than mtu on multiqueue devices.  This change will make
> it so that fragments are hashed only as IP datagrams w/o any protocol
> information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>

As we discussed on IRC this fixes a pretty serious performance regression
compared to previous releases, so I added this to net-2.6 and will push
to Linus.

Thanks!

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-21  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19  0:43 [PATCH] netdev: simple_tx_hash shouldn't hash inside fragments Alexander Duyck
2008-09-21  5:06 ` David Miller [this message]

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