Re: NAPI-ized tulip patch against 2.4.20-rc1

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> Here's an update of the tulip-NAPI and skb-recycle patches.  I made some
> changes to get it to compile and work when the RECYCLE define in skbuff.h
> was not enabled.
> 
> I also got some test runs in.  Nothing really conclusive.
> 
> Test setup:  Phobos 4-port NIC in each P-IV 1.8Ghz machine 32/33 PCI bus.
> Kernel 2.4.20-rc1 + my patches.  NICs connected to each other over CX 
> cables.
> Sending 4k 1514 byte packets per second, send + receive. (48Mbps or so)
> RX ring size is 1024 for all of these tests.  No significant errors 
> reported
> by the driver.  I don't know where these dropped packets go..no counter
> seems to be catching them.

I changed to use smaller packets 757 bytes long, and to send/receive twice
as many (8kpps).  Still running at 50Mbps or so.

rx-ring is 256, still using skb-recycling with 300 skb hotlist.

Out of 57 million sent, dropped about 24k packets.  I also see about
3k of Rx-Drops on each interface.  No other significant errors reported
by the driver....

Any ideas for what to try next?  What about upping the skb-hotlist to
1024 or so?  Maybe also pre-load it with buffers to make it less likely we'll
run low?  (Rx-Drops means it could not allocate a buffer, right?)

Enjoy,
Ben

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