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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:01:00 +0200
From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VLAN HW accel, performance advantage?
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote on 2013/09/03 17:29:10:
>
> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:48 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > GRO should be beneficial for bridges if you have bursty TCP streams.
It
> > is especially beneficial if you also have TSO on the TX side.
> >
> > Really you're going to have to try it and run benchmarks with your own
> > hardware.
>
> Note that ucc_geth does not have GRO support (it calls
> netif_receive_skb())
>
> It doesnt have RX checksuming either, so having to validate
> tcp checksums (before aggregating them in GRO stack) would hurt if
> packets only have to be forwarded.
Yes, the controller only have IP header checksum. Seems there is little to
gain with HW VLAN support for this controller, maybe when I got some spare
time
then. :)
Thanks guys
Jocke
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