From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Subject: Re: Major network performance regression in 3.7
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:01:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130106120129.GA22432@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130106102525.GA22151@1wt.eu>
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:25:25AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> OK good news here, the performance drop on the myri was caused by a
> problem between the keyboard and the chair. After the reboot series,
> I forgot to reload the firmware so the driver used the less efficient
> firmware from the NIC (it performs just as if LRO is disabled).
>
> That makes me think that I should try 3.8-rc2 since LRO was removed
> there :-/
Just for the record, I tested 3.8-rc2, and the myri works as fast with
GRO there as it used to work with LRO in previous kernels. The softirq
work has increased from 26 to 48% but there is no performance drop when
using GRO anymore. Andrew has done a good job !
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-06 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-05 21:49 Major network performance regression in 3.7 Willy Tarreau
2013-01-05 23:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-05 23:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 0:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 0:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 1:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 1:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 1:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 1:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 2:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 2:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 2:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 2:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 2:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 2:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 7:31 ` [PATCH net-next] net: splice: avoid high order page splitting Eric Dumazet
2013-01-07 5:07 ` David Miller
2013-01-06 7:35 ` Major network performance regression in 3.7 Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 9:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 10:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 11:46 ` Romain Francoise
2013-01-06 11:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 12:01 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2013-01-06 14:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 15:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 16:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 16:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 17:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 17:35 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 18:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 18:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 18:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 19:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 19:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 19:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-06 19:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-07 4:21 ` [PATCH] tcp: fix MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST logic Eric Dumazet
2013-01-07 4:59 ` David Miller
2013-01-06 21:49 ` Major network performance regression in 3.7 John Stoffel
2013-01-06 21:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-01-06 21:55 ` John Stoffel
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