netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] gro: decrease size of CB

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Message-ID: <b45cedc6-3dbe-5cbb-1938-5c33cf9fc70d@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:19:30 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@...il.com>,
 davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
 pabeni@...hat.com, aleksander.lobakin@...el.com, lixiaoyan@...gle.com,
 lucien.xin@...il.com, alexanderduyck@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] gro: decrease size of CB

On 6/28/23 6:42 AM, Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 27/06/2023 17:21, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 6/26/23 2:55 AM, Gal Pressman wrote:
>>> I believe this commit broke gro over udp tunnels.
>>> I'm running iperf tcp traffic over geneve interfaces and the bandwidth
>>> is pretty much zero.
>>>
>>
>> Could you add a test script to tools/testing/selftests/net? It will help
>> catch future regressions.
>>
> 
> I'm checking internally, someone from the team might be able to work on
> this, though I'm not sure that a test that verifies bandwidth makes much
> sense as a selftest.
> 

With veth and namespaces I expect up to 25-30G performance levels,
depending on the test. When something fundamental breaks like this patch
a drop to < 1G would be a red flag, so there is value to the test.