netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: introduce dev_set

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Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:23:59 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hkchu@...gle.com, mwdalton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next] net: introduce dev_set_forwarding()

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:51:53PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 18:42 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > A normal TSO packets with 16 MSS setups a ~17 DMA descriptors,
> > while GSO requires 2 DMA descriptors per MSS, plus a lot of overhead
> > in sk_buff allocation/deallocation.
> 
> Not mentioning fact that a 64KB packet is adding latencies, since high
> prio packets have to wait the whole preceding 64KB packet has left the
> host.

That would be a bug in the GRO code since a high prio packet
shouldn't have been merged in the first place and therefore
the usual priority mechanism should allow it to preempt the
64KB packet.

Cheers,
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