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From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
To: Shlomo Pongartz <shlomop@mellanox.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GRO aggregation
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:20:12 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <504F80DC.7010707@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504F4063.9030706@mellanox.com>

On 09/11/2012 10:45 AM, Shlomo Pongartz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m checking GRO aggregation with kernel 3.6.0-rc1+ using Intel ixgbe
> driver.
> The mtu is 1500 and GRO is on and so are SG and RX checksum.
> I ran iperf with default setting and monitor the receiver with tcpdump.
> The tcpdump shows that the maximal aggregation is 32120 which is 21 * 1500.
> In the transmitter side tcpdump shows that TSO works better (~64K).
> I did a capture without GRO enabled to see if there was a difference
> between any flag
> of any two consecutive packets that forced flushing but didn't find
> anything.
> Is the GRO aggregation can be tuned.

Hi Shlomo,

Have you tried tuning coalescing parameters?

Marcelo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-11 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-11 13:45 GRO aggregation Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-11 18:20 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner [this message]
2012-09-11 18:41   ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 18:48     ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2012-09-11 18:51       ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 18:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-11 18:49   ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 19:01     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-11 19:24       ` Shlomo Pongratz
2012-09-11 19:35         ` David Miller
2012-09-11 19:35         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-12  9:23           ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-12  9:33             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-12 14:41               ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-12 16:23                 ` Rick Jones
2012-09-12 16:34                   ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-12 16:52                     ` Rick Jones
2012-09-13  6:36                       ` Shlomo Pongartz
2012-09-13  8:11                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-13  9:59                           ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-13 12:05                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-13 12:34                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-13 12:47                               ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-13 13:22                                 ` Eric Dumazet

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