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From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: linux-3.0.18+r8169+ipv4/tcp forwarding = tso/gso weirdness and performance degration
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:51:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120314215142.655ae607@vostro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331753354.2564.7.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:29:14 +0000 Ben Hutchings
<bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 19:29 +0200, Timo Teras wrote:
> [...]
> > gro off. I am even trying now with:
> > 
> > Offload parameters for eth2:
> > rx-checksumming: off
> > tx-checksumming: off
> > scatter-gather: off
> > tcp segmentation offload: off
> > udp fragmentation offload: off
> > generic segmentation offload: off
> [...]
> 
> GRO isn't even reported there!  Apparently you need a newer version of
> ethtool.

Very good point. I thought gso also enabled gro, but seems that my
ethtool was old.

And GRO was enabled along with some other stuff. Turning GRO off made
my tcp performance immediately a lot better; jumped from 2MB/s to 8MB/s
or so (not ideal yet, though; but the remainder of the difference could
be related to other issue).

So something is definitely broke in 3.0.x with GRO enabled, but GSO off.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 17:01 linux-3.0.18+r8169+ipv4/tcp forwarding = tso/gso weirdness and performance degration Timo Teras
2012-03-14 17:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-14 17:29   ` Timo Teras
2012-03-14 18:25     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-14 19:29     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-14 19:51       ` Timo Teras [this message]
2012-03-14 20:12         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-14 20:33           ` Timo Teras
2012-03-14 20:52             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-14 20:53             ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-15  6:06               ` Timo Teras
2012-03-15 15:11                 ` Timo Teras
2012-03-15 16:11                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-15 18:47                     ` Timo Teras
2012-03-15 19:11                   ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-16 20:15                     ` Timo Teras
2012-03-17  9:56                       ` Timo Teras
2012-03-17 11:35                         ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-17 22:20                           ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-18  7:00                             ` Timo Teras
2012-03-20 15:31                             ` Timo Teras
2012-03-20 18:20                               ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-14 21:16 ` Francois Romieu

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