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Message-ID: <1303147676.2857.20.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:27:56 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	John Lumby <johnlumby@...mail.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 :  always copying the rx buffer to new skb

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 13:08 -0400, John Lumby wrote:
> Summary  -  current r8169 always memcpy's every received buffer to new skb,
>              and I'd like to propose that it should not,
>              which can improve throughput / reduce CPU utilization by 
> around 10%

At least some variants of the hardware have a bug in RX DMA scatter that
can be exploited for denial-of-service.  The workaround is to allocate
huge RX buffers (16K).  Then, to avoid allocation failures later on (and
to save memory) the buffers must be copied rather than passed up the
stack and reallocated.

[...]
> As a second proposal (which I made before),  I'd like to suggest that 
> the number of rx buffers allocated at open should be configurable by 
> module param.
[...]

No, it should implement the ethtool set_ringparam operation.

Ben.

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