netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: mv643xx

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Date:	Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:59:11 +0200
From:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>,
	Soeren Moch <smoch@....de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	Dale Farnsworth <dale@...nsworth.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mv643xx_eth: Add GRO support

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:27:03PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> I don't have a strong opinion on whether Soeren's or your proposal should
>> be submitted. But I insist on having one of them in, as GRO significantly
>> improves the common use case, is enabled by default, and not as
>> constrained as LRO.
>
> I agree, use yours first, but we should keep an eye on this. Since you have
> everything to run a test, please try to see if you can get netperf to run
> over IPv6, I'm sure the NIC doesn't handle it.

Willy,

out of curiosity I replayed all tests using netperf/netserver with -6 which
enables ipv6. The overall results remain quite the same here:
enabling support for GRO gives a huge improvement in achievable
throughput, and the difference between Soeren's and your patch is
neglectible.

Sebastian
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