netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 00/10] korina cleanups/optimizations

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:59:14 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Roman Yeryomin' <roman@...em.lv>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 00/10] korina cleanups/optimizations

From: Roman Yeryomin
> Sent: 15 October 2017 17:22
> TX optimizations have led to ~15% performance increase (35->40Mbps)
> in local tx usecase (tested with iperf v3.2).

Indicate which patches give the improvement.
IIRC some just changed the source without changing what the code really did.
(Not a problem in itself.)

...
>   net: korina: optimize tx/rx interrupt handlers

You'd probably get a noticeable improvement from caching the
value of the interrupt mask - instead of reading it from the hardware.
...

	David