netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: gro: change GRO overflow strategy

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Message-ID: <CADVnQyma1YgZT8m4in2cD97vNupvhxKVAsZ347-LABnoh6werA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:28:13 -0500
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: gro: change GRO overflow strategy

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
...
> This patch changes strategy to simply evict the oldest flow of
> the list. This works better because of the nature of packet
> trains for which GRO is efficient. This also has the effect
> of lowering the GRO latency if many flows are competing.
...
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c |   17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Nice!

neal
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