netdev - Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: map entire pages to increase throughput

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:10:08 -0500
From:	Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
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	"ogerlitz@...lanox.com" <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	"amirv@...lanox.com" <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	"leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"klebers@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <klebers@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: map entire pages to increase throughput

On 07/17/2012 01:17 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
> On 07/16/2012 10:29 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012
>> 10:27:57 -0700
>> 
>>> That seems rather extraordinarily low - Power7 is supposed to be
>>> a rather high performance CPU.  The last time I noticed
>>> O(3Gbit/s) on 10G for bulk transfer was before the advent of
>>> LRO/GRO - that was in the x86 space though.  Is mapping really
>>> that expensive with Power7?
>> 
>> Unfortunately, IOMMU mappings are incredibly expensive.  I see
>> effects like this on Sparc too.
> 
> OK, so that has caused some dimm memory to get a small refresh - it
> ends up being akin to if not actually a PIO yes?  I recall schemes in
> drivers in other stacks whereby "small" packets were copied because
> it was cheaper to allocate/copy then it was to remap.

On Power it ends up being an hcall to the hypervisor

-Brian

-- 
Brian King
Power Linux I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center




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