netdev - Re: [PATCH,v2,net-next 1/2] tun: enable NAPI for TUN/TAP driver

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Message-ID: <CAF=yD-KOWL1myXb8xFR30c0Z8MirGwz47fWUGTUoBq1+ubR2WA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:06:31 -0400
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Petar Penkov <peterpenkov96@...il.com>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ppenkov@...nford.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH,v2,net-next 1/2] tun: enable NAPI for TUN/TAP driver

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Petar Penkov <peterpenkov96@...il.com> wrote:
> Changes TUN driver to use napi_gro_receive() upon receiving packets
> rather than netif_rx_ni(). Adds flag IFF_NAPI that enables these
> changes and operation is not affected if the flag is disabled.  SKBs
> are constructed upon packet arrival and are queued to be processed
> later.
>
> The new path was evaluated with a benchmark with the following setup:
> Open two tap devices and a receiver thread that reads in a loop for
> each device. Start one sender thread and pin all threads to different
> CPUs. Send 1M minimum UDP packets to each device and measure sending
> time for each of the sending methods:
>         napi_gro_receive():     4.90s
>         netif_rx_ni():          4.90s
>         netif_receive_skb():    7.20s
>
> Signed-off-by: Petar Penkov <peterpenkov96@...il.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net
> Cc: ppenkov@...nford.edu

Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>

Thanks, Petar.