From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800 Ethernet controller Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:15:31 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1447172063-27234-1-git-send-email-mans@mansr.com> <20151110233448.GA8646@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20151110.211121.422193831316296487.davem@davemloft.net> <1447248595.17135.98.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <1447250961.17135.104.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , romieu@fr.zoreil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, slash.tmp@free.fr To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1447250961.17135.104.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> (Eric Dumazet's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:09:21 -0800") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Eric Dumazet writes: > On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 13:48 +0000, M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: >> Eric Dumazet writes: >>=20 >> > On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 13:04 +0000, M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: >> > >> >> I tried that, and throughput (as measured by iperf3) dropped by 2= %. >> >> Maybe I did something wrong. >> > >> > What link speed have you used, what was the throughput you got, >> > and is the receiver using the same NIC ? >>=20 >> 1Gbps link, 640 Mbps TCP transmit throughput to a PC with Intel NIC. >> Why does it matter what NIC the receiver has? > > Because at 1Gb line rate, you better get GRO properly implemented in = the > receiver, so that TCP stack does not send one ACK every 2 MSS. > > Send speed is also dependent on the number of ACK packets the sender = has > to process. > > This is why I suggested you use napi_gro_receive() in your driver. =46WIW, with UDP I get 650 Mbps. --=20 M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd mans@mansr.com