From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: cadence: macb: Enable software IRQ coalescing by default
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 17:26:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240904162652.GB4792@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240903184912.4151926-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev>
On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 02:49:12PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> This NIC doesn't have hardware IRQ coalescing. Under high load,
> interrupts can adversely affect performance. To mitigate this, enable
> software IRQ coalescing by default. On my system this increases receive
> throughput with iperf3 from 853 MBit/sec to 934 MBit/s, decreases
> interrupts from 69489/sec to 2016/sec, and decreases CPU utilization
> from 27% (4x Cortex-A53) to 14%. Latency is not affected (as far as I
> can tell).
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
Nice performance improvement :)
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-04 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-03 18:49 [PATCH net-next] net: cadence: macb: Enable software IRQ coalescing by default Sean Anderson
2024-09-04 16:26 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2024-09-05 0:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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