netdev - BW regression after "tcp: refine TSO autosizing"

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:48:50 +0200
From:	Eyal Perry <eyalpe@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	yevgenyp@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com, idos@...lanox.com,
	amira@...lanox.com, eyalpe@...lanox.com
Subject: BW regression after "tcp: refine TSO autosizing"

Hello Eric,
Lately we've observed performance degradation in BW of about 30-40% (depends on
the setup we use).
I've bisected the issue down to the this commit: 605ad7f1 ("tcp: refine TSO
autosizing")

For instance, I was running the following test:
1. Bounding net device' irqs to core 0 for both client and server side
2. Running netperf with 64K massage size (used the following command)
$ netperf -H remote -T 1,1 -l 100 -t TCP_STREAM -- -k THROUGHPUT -M 65536 -m 65536

I ran the test on upstream net-next including your patch and than reverted it
and these are the results I got was improvement from 14.6Gbps to 22.1Gbps.

an additional difference I've noticed when inspecting the ethtool statics,
number of xmit_more packets increased from 4 to 160 with the reverted kernel.

We are investigating this issue, do you have a hint?

Best regards,
Eyal.

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