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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt•org>
To: OpenWrt Development List <openwrt-devel@lists•openwrt.org>
Cc: Network Development <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt•org>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m•de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] bgmac: pass received packet to the netif instead of copying it
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:47:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <520CBFD6.6030600@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rwtLw-Aiz3amMvTBwWsi0OWo5f2yMCF9e8DeCjKLOGDEA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2013-08-15 1:36 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2013/8/11 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail•com>:
>> It makes more sense to allocate new (empty) skb and pass it to the
>> hardware. That way we avoid copying whole packet into new skb which
>> should result in better performance.
> 
> I did some testing of this patch using "perf" tool and iperf -s
> running on the OpenWrt machine (with bgmac supported hardware).
> 
> So you can see that __copy_user_common usage has really decreased with
> this patch!
> 
> Unfortunately it didn't result in better performance... no idea why :(
Running iperf on the router is not useful as an indicator of routing
performance. Please focus on tests where you only push traffic through
the router, not directly to it.

- Felix
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-15 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-11 17:49 [RFC][PATCH 1/2] bgmac: separate RX desc setup code into new function Rafał Miłecki
2013-08-11 17:49 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] bgmac: pass received packet to the netif instead of copying it Rafał Miłecki
2013-08-15 11:36   ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-08-15 11:47     ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2013-08-15 20:21       ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-08-18 21:06         ` [OpenWrt-Devel] " Rafał Miłecki
2013-08-19  4:36         ` Felix Fietkau
2013-08-19 17:20           ` Rafał Miłecki

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