From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlge: Add offload features to vlan interfaces Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120729.231848.1749249366881037474.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1343415292-49323-1-git-send-email-brenohl@br.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com, ron.mercer@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: brenohl@br.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:50740 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751385Ab2G3GSt (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:18:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1343415292-49323-1-git-send-email-brenohl@br.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: brenohl@br.ibm.com Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:54:52 -0500 > This patch fills the net_device vlan_features with the proper hardware features, > thus, improving the vlan interface performance. > > With the patch applied, I can see around 148% improvement on a TCP_STREAM test, > from 3.5 Gb/s to 8.7 Gb/s. On TCP_RR, I see a 11% improvement, from 18k > to 20. The CPU utilization is almost the same on both cases, from the comparison > above. > > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Applied.