netdev - Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:58 +0530
From:	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	gaagaan@...il.com, johnpol@....mipt.ru, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	rick.jones2@...com, sri@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver API to speed up small packets xmits

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote on 05/11/2007 02:07:10 AM:

> From: Gagan Arneja <gaagaan@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:43:53 -0700
> >
> > Also, I think, you don't have to chain skbs, they're already chained in

> >   Qdisc->q. All you have to do is take the whole q and try to shove it
> > at the device hoping for better results. But then, if you have rather
> > big backlog, you run the risk of reordering packets if you have to
requeue.
>
> If the qdisc is packed with packets and we would just loop sending
> them to the device, yes it might make sense.
>
> But if that isn't the case, which frankly is the usual case, you add a
> non-trivial amount of latency by batching and that's bad exactly for
> the kind of applications that send small frames.

Without batching, the latency should be the same since qdisc_run would
send each in a tight loop ?

I will also run TCP/UDP RR tests.

thanks,

- KK

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