linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: mvneta: Spread out the TX queues management on all CPUs

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Date:	Fri, 04 Dec 2015 22:30:35 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@...vell.com>,
	Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>,
	Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>,
	Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@...uanux.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net: mvneta: Spread out the TX queues management on all CPUs

On Friday 04 December 2015 11:12:30 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 19:45 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > With this patch each CPU is associated with its own set of TX queues. In
> > the same time the SKB received in mvneta_tx is bound to the queue
> > associated to the CPU sending the data. Thanks to this the next IRQ will
> > be received on the same CPU allowing sending more data.
> > 
> > It will also allow to have a more predictable behavior regarding
> > throughput and latency when having multiple threads sending out data on
> > different CPUs.
> > 
> > As an example on Armada XP GP, with an iperf bound to a CPU and a ping
> > bound to another CPU, without this patch the ping round trip was about
> > 2.5ms (and could reach 3s!), whereas with this patch it was around
> > 0.7ms (and sometime it went to 1.2ms).
> 
> This really looks like you need something smarter than pfifo_fast qdisc,
> and maybe BQL (I did not check if this driver already implements this)

I suggested this change as well as the BQL implementation that Marcin did.
I believe he hasn't posted that yet while he's doing some more testing,
but it should come soon.

	Arnd
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