netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH V5] qdisc: bulk dequeue support for qdiscs with TCQ_F

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Date:	Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:07:52 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>, toke@...e.dk,
	brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V5] qdisc: bulk dequeue support for qdiscs with
 TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 04:48:56 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
 
> In my opinion, you guys missed some opportunities :

This is a conservative first approach.  The merge window is approaching
fast, is is annoying you are blocking a save conservative approach.


> 1) Ideally the algo should try to call validate_xmit_skb() outside of
> the locks (qdisc lock or device lock), because eventually doing checksum
> computation or full segmentation should allow other cpus doing enqueues.

Save it for later please, don't complicate things further.


> 2) TSO support. Have you ideas how to perform this ?

Yes, we already have patches floating which implements bulking of TSO
and GSO packets.  You will get that.

Please one step at a time, also for bisect-ability...

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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