linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for Virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS)

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Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:15:25 +0000
From:	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
CC:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	"olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
	"jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org" 
	<driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for Virtual Receive Side
 Scaling (vRSS)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Herbert [mailto:therbert@...gle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:43 PM
> To: Haiyang Zhang
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann; Ben Hutchings; davem@...emloft.net;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan; olaf@...fle.de;
> jasowang@...hat.com; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; driverdev-
> devel@...uxdriverproject.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for Virtual Receive Side
> Scaling (vRSS)
> 
> Patch is below. This version did most pre-computation of the variants I built,
> but results in largest table (40*256*4 bytes), This gives performance roughly
> comparable with jhash (roughly same as jhash for IPv4, about 30% more
> cycles for IPv6). I have the simpler less memory intensive versions also if
> you're interested, these are 10x worse cycles so I wouldn't want those in
> critical path.
> ----

Thank you for the code. We like the fast implementation even it uses a bit more
memory. Are you going to address the comments and re-submit the code soon?

Thanks,
- Haiyang