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Message-ID: <20131113022525.GA28236@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:25:25 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
hkchu@...gle.com, mwdalton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: gso: Handle new frag_list of frags GRO packets
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:22:43AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 06:17:14PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 09:29 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > > I presume this is on a NIC that produces completely linear packets?
> >
> > Sorry : with mlx4 driver, GRO builds nice skbs with one page frag per
> > MSS, so each skb found on frag_list is fully loaded with 16 MSS
>
> OK, so what are the numbers when GRO is off completely?
Actually don't bother, it's not a fair comparison at all. In the
first case we're doing TSO and with my patch we're only doing GSO.
So a better test for the time being would be to test with TSO
disabled in both cases.
In the mean time I'm cooking up a patch to generate TSO packets.
Thanks,
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