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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, rick.jones2@hp.com,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	jesse@nicira.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] napi: limit GRO latency
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:10:35 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121008.151035.1665672334154033755.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121008115835.3a3bfed6@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:58:35 -0700

> Limit the latency of pending GRO in NAPI processing to 2*HZ.
> When the system is under heavy network load, NAPI will go into
> poll mode via soft irq, and only stay in the loop for
> two jiffies. If this occurs, process the GRO pending list
> to make sure and not delay outstanding TCP frames for too long.
> 
> Rearrange the exit path to get rid of unnecessary goto logic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Did you see Eric's patch I just applied which limits it to 1ms?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-08 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-27 12:48 [PATCH net-next 3/3] ipv4: gre: add GRO capability Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 17:52 ` Jesse Gross
2012-09-27 18:08   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 18:19     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 22:03       ` Jesse Gross
2012-09-28 14:04         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 20:56           ` Jesse Gross
2012-10-05 14:52             ` [RFC] GRO scalability Eric Dumazet
2012-10-05 18:16               ` Rick Jones
2012-10-05 19:00                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-05 19:35                   ` Rick Jones
2012-10-05 20:06                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 16:40                       ` Rick Jones
2012-10-08 16:59                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 17:49                           ` Rick Jones
2012-10-08 17:55                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 17:56                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 18:58                                 ` [RFC] napi: limit GRO latency Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-08 19:10                                   ` David Miller [this message]
2012-10-08 19:12                                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-08 19:30                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 19:40                                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-08 19:46                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 19:21                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 18:21                               ` [RFC] GRO scalability Rick Jones
2012-10-08 18:28                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06  4:11               ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-06  5:08                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06  5:14                   ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-06  6:22                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06  7:00                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-06 10:56                         ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-06 18:08                           ` [PATCH] net: gro: selective flush of packets Eric Dumazet
2012-10-07  0:32                             ` Herbert Xu
2012-10-07  5:29                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08  7:39                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 16:42                                   ` Rick Jones
2012-10-08 17:10                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 18:52                             ` David Miller
2012-09-27 22:03     ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] ipv4: gre: add GRO capability Jesse Gross
2012-10-01 21:04 ` David Miller

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