netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio

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Message-Id: <20150803.142308.1032997735864227733.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rick.jones2@...com, mst@...hat.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: add gro capability

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:25:17 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Straightforward patch to add GRO processing to virtio_net.
> 
> napi_complete_done() usage allows more aggressive aggregation,
> opted-in by setting /sys/class/net/xxx/gro_flush_timeout
> 
> Tested:
> 
> Setting /sys/class/net/xxx/gro_flush_timeout to 1000 nsec,
> Rick Jones reported following results.
> 
> One VM of each on a pair of OpenStack compute nodes with E5-2650Lv3 CPUs
> and Intel 82599ES-based NICs. So, two "before" and two "after" VMs.
> The OpenStack compute nodes were running OpenStack Kilo, with VxLAN
> encapsulation being used through OVS so no GRO coming-up the host
> stack.  The compute nodes themselves were running a 3.14-based kernel.
> 
> Single-stream netperf, CPU utilizations and thus service demands are
> based on intra-guest reported CPU.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>

Applied.
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