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From: Furong Xu <0x1207@gmail•com>
To: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel•org>,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro•org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] page_pool: check for dma_sync_size earlier
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 11:31:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250106113123.0000384b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL+tcoBfZRNrHarZzmRh0ep+QrfZOntm82hECNb=aMO-FdmH8g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 11:15:45 +0800, Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail•com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 11:026§2AM Furong Xu <0x1207@gmail•com> wrote:
> >
> > Setting dma_sync_size to 0 is not illegal, fec_main.c and ravb_main.c
> > already did.
> > We can save a couple of function calls if check for dma_sync_size earlier.
> >
> > This is a micro optimization, about 0.6% PPS performance improvement
> > has been observed on a single Cortex-A53 CPU core with 64 bytes UDP RX
> > traffic test.
> >
> > Before this patch:
> > The average of packets per second is 234026 in one minute.
> >
> > After this patch:
> > The average of packets per second is 235537 in one minute.  
> 
> Sorry, I keep skeptical that this small improvement can be statically
> observed? What exact tool or benchmark are you using, I wonder?

A x86 PC send out UDP packet and the sar cmd from Sysstat package to report
the PPS on RX side:
sar -n DEV 60 1

  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-06  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-06  3:02 [PATCH net-next v3] page_pool: check for dma_sync_size earlier Furong Xu
2025-01-06  3:15 ` Jason Xing
2025-01-06  3:31   ` Furong Xu [this message]
2025-01-09 10:09     ` Paolo Abeni
2025-01-09 15:44 ` Alexander Lobakin

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