netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] Introduce NETIF_F_GRO

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:01:25 +0200
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>,
        Gal Pressman <galp@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com> wrote:
>>> Introduce NETIF_F_GRO_HW feature flag and convert drivers that support
>>> hardware GRO to use the new flag.
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Could you add more performance motivations/results? looking on your
>> netconf slides [1]
>> I see (much) better CPU utilization (slide 5) -- do you have more
>> numbers to share?
>
> The motivations are the same as LRO:  to achieve higher RX throughput
> and lower CPU utilization.

makes sense, what is the +/- %% improvement in RX throughput you see?

> You can think of it as an improved version of LRO that is stricter and
> provides more information to construct the GRO frame so that it is
> reversible.

sounds good to me