Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] pcnet32: switch to napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive()

From: Oscar Maes <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 19:05:10 +0200

On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 08:07:48AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2026 16:28:51 +0200 Oscar Maes wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 08:45:28AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Mon, 25 May 2026 14:54:37 +0200 Oscar Maes wrote:  
> > > > In my testing this resulted in up to a 25% RX throughput increase in iperf3
> > > > tests in both directions.  
> > > 
> > > On which platform?  
> > 
> > Intel x86
> 
> LOL. Please. Which _hardware_ platform.
> Or to ask more directly - is it QEMU.

It was indeed tested on QEMU.
Either way, the performance measurements were just a sanity check.
Changing the code to use the modern API is just better.