netdev - RE: GRO aggregation

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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:01:53 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop@...lanox.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: GRO aggregation

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 18:49 +0000, Shlomo Pongratz wrote:

> I disabled the LRO. I actually tried the all the 4 options and found that LRO, GRO, LRO+GRO gives the same results for ixgbe w.r.t aggregation size (didn't check for throughput or latency).
> Is there a timeout that flushes the aggregated SKBs before 64K were aggregated?

At the end of NAPI run, we flush the gro state.

It basically means that an interrupt came, and we fetched 21 frames from
the NIC.

To get more packets per interrupt, you might try to slow down your
cpu ;)

But I dont get the point.


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