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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: brouer@redhat.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: exploit skb->xmit_more to conditionally send doorbell
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:43:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140925164333.7cba128a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411654669.16953.17.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:17:49 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> Tested with a modified pktgen version, I got a 40% increase of
> throughput.

Pktgen is artificial benchmarking, you know ;-) :-P

If you really must use pktgen for this, you can use an unmodified
pktgen against the qdisc layer by adding a VLAN interface on-top of the
device you want to test.  I blame John, for telling me this ;-)

/me running away
-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-25 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-25 14:17 [PATCH net-next] mlx4: exploit skb->xmit_more to conditionally send doorbell Eric Dumazet
2014-09-25 14:43 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2014-09-25 15:06   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-25 15:36     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-25 15:40       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-25 16:19       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-25 20:47       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-25 20:58         ` Joe Perches
2014-09-25 21:20         ` [PATCH net-next] net: reorganize sk_buff for faster __copy_skb_header() Eric Dumazet
2014-09-26  8:35           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-28 21:37           ` David Miller
2014-09-29  4:06             ` David Miller
2014-09-29  4:57               ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-29  5:18           ` [PATCH v2 " Eric Dumazet
2014-09-29 16:27             ` David Miller
2014-09-25 15:53 ` [PATCH net-next] mlx4: exploit skb->xmit_more to conditionally send doorbell Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-25 16:05   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-25 16:08     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-28 21:27 ` David Miller

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