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From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri•com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	brice@myri•com, sgruszka@redhat•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] myr10ge: again fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:45:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F1B468.7020605@myri.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090424054557.GA24575@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:37:24AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>> I booted the sender into a kernel.org 2.6.18.2 so as to try to have  
>> results as close to yours as possible (I was running 2.6.22 on the
>> sender before).
> 
> OK I've got my hands on a myricom card.  I've tested it using the
> same 2.6.18 sender that I used against the eariler cxgb3 test.
> I wasn't able to discern any significant deviations between LRO
> and GRO.
> 
> Unfortunately it seems that this machine is a little too fast
> so even with the IRQ bound to a single CPU it's way overspeced
> for 10GbE:
> 
>     Idle at 10Gb IRQ rate	soaker IRQ rate soaker throuput
> GRO 43-45	 14700		13300		7933
> LRO 43-45	 14700		13300		7943
> 
> But even with the soaker running they seem to be neck and neck.

This is strange.  I wonder if it might be a cache footprint issue?
My intentionally weak receiver is an athlon64 x2 "Toledo", and
has only 512KB L2 cache.  I can re-test with a core-2 based Xeon.

But can you describe your setup in more detail?  What CPU does the
receiver have? You say the sender is running 2.6.18.  Is this
a RHEL5 kernel, or a kernel.org kernel?

> Here's the patch I used BTW.  I got the checksums to work by
> just setting skb->csum.

Yes, sorry about that stupidity.

Drew

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-24 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15  8:09 [PATCH] myr10ge: again fix lro_gen_skb() alignment Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-04-15  9:28 ` David Miller
2009-04-15  9:48   ` Brice Goglin
2009-04-15 10:02     ` David Miller
2009-04-15 13:01       ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-15 21:04         ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-15 23:42           ` David Miller
2009-04-16  8:50             ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-16  9:02               ` David Miller
2009-04-21 19:19               ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-22 10:48                 ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-22 15:37                   ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-24  5:45                     ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-24 12:45                       ` Andrew Gallatin [this message]
2009-04-24 12:51                         ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-24 17:13                         ` Rick Jones
2009-04-24 16:16                       ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-24 16:30                         ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-24 16:31                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27  8:05                         ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27  8:07                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27  9:32                             ` David Miller
2009-04-27 11:01                               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-27 12:45                             ` David Miller
2009-04-27 12:45                           ` David Miller
2009-04-28  6:12                           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-28 15:00                             ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-28 15:02                               ` David Miller
2009-04-28 15:20                               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-28 15:44                                 ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-28 21:12                                 ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-29 13:42                                   ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-29 13:53                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-29 14:18                                       ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-29 15:26                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-29 17:28                                           ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-30  8:10                                             ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-30  8:14                                               ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-30  8:17                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-30 19:14                                               ` Andrew Gallatin
2009-04-23  8:00                 ` Herbert Xu

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