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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: keyurp@xilinx.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netif_receive_skb is taking long time
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:43:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181025.104310.1362475664274438273.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR02MB2641D817810960AAE59B9CDEB7F70@BN6PR02MB2641.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>

From: Keyur Amrutbhai Patel <keyurp@xilinx.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:22:02 +0000

> Current time consuming function are " netif_receive_skb " and "
> napi_alloc_skb " these two function calls are taking maximum about
> of time

netif_receive_skb() calls the entire networking stack receive path.
So measuring it by itself it not very useful.

Use 'perf' or a similar tool to fully profile the kernel and get a
more detailed analysis.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-26  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-25 15:39 netif_receive_skb is taking long time Keyur Amrutbhai Patel
2018-10-25 17:05 ` Keyur Amrutbhai Patel
2018-10-25 17:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-10-25 17:22   ` Keyur Amrutbhai Patel
2018-10-25 17:32     ` Eric Dumazet
2018-10-25 17:43     ` David Miller [this message]

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