netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: exploit skb->xmit_more to conditionally send doorbell

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Message-ID: <20140925164333.7cba128a@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:43:33 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	brouer@...hat.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: exploit skb->xmit_more to conditionally
 send doorbell

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:17:49 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Tested with a modified pktgen version, I got a 40% increase of
> throughput.

Pktgen is artificial benchmarking, you know ;-) :-P

If you really must use pktgen for this, you can use an unmodified
pktgen against the qdisc layer by adding a VLAN interface on-top of the
device you want to test.  I blame John, for telling me this ;-)

/me running away
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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
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