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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: krkumar2@in.ibm.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Optimize TCP sendmsg in favour of fast devices?
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:18:29 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100115.011829.03057807.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF0D3FEC3A.84663D58-ON652576AC.0031CA59-652576AC.003232CF@in.ibm.com>

From: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:50:04 +0530

> I wonder if there is some other way to test it. I could test it on
> the card I have, cxgbe, by ethtool F_SG off, and then testing
> this patch with existing code (both with ethtool F_SG off)? Will
> that be enough to get an idea, or I cannot assume this is
> reasonable for real non-sg drivers? I am sure there is a
> degradation, and mentioned that part as a "penalty" for those
> drivers in my patch.

I think such a test would provide useful data by which to judge this
change.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-15  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-15  5:33 [RFC] [PATCH] Optimize TCP sendmsg in favour of fast devices? Krishna Kumar
2010-01-15  8:36 ` David Miller
2010-01-15  8:50   ` Simon Kagstrom
2010-01-15  8:52     ` David Miller
2010-01-15  9:00       ` Simon Kagstrom
2010-01-15  9:04         ` David Miller
2010-01-15  9:03   ` Krishna Kumar2
     [not found]   ` <OF1B0853DD.2824263E-ON652576AC.002FA9D4-652576AC.0030AC47@LocalDomain>
2010-01-15  9:20     ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-15  9:18       ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-20 12:19         ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-21  9:25           ` David Miller
2010-01-21  9:41             ` Herbert Xu
2010-01-27  7:12               ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-29  9:06                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-01-29 11:15                   ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-29 11:33                     ` Herbert Xu
2010-01-29 11:50                       ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-29 20:02                       ` Rick Jones
2010-01-29 19:56                     ` Rick Jones
     [not found]               ` <OF7EA723DA.DC2FF4FC-ON652576B8.002064CB-652576B8.00267739@LocalDomain>
2010-01-27  9:42                 ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-29  9:07                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-01-15 18:13 ` Rick Jones
2010-01-16  6:38   ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-19 17:41     ` Rick Jones

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