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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: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:25:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100121.012520.254679483.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF0A3AFFAB.FFA8088C-ON652576B1.001D7B08-652576B1.0042980B@in.ibm.com>

From: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:49:18 +0530

> I had to remove the F_SG flag from cxgb3 driver (using ethtool
> didn't show any difference in performance since GSO was enabled
> on the device due to register_netdev setting it). Testing show a
> drop of 25% in performance with this patch for non-SG device,
> the extra alloc/memcpy is showing up.
> 
> For the SG driver, I get a good performace gain (not anywhere
> close to 25% though). What do you suggest?

I don't think we can add your change if it hurts non-SG
devices that much.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-21  9:25 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
2010-01-20 12:19         ` Krishna Kumar2
2010-01-21  9:25           ` David Miller [this message]
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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