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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox•com>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:38:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545AD11B.5050603@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415235320.13896.51.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 11/05/2014 04:55 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Tested:
>   Ran 200 netperf TCP_STREAM from A to B (10Gbe link, 8 RX queues)
>
> Without this feature, we send back about 305,000 ACK per second.
>
> GRO aggregation ratio is low (811/305 = 2.65 segments per GRO packet)
>
> Setting a timer of 2000 nsec is enough to increase GRO packet sizes
> and reduce number of ACK packets. (811/19.2 = 42)
>
> Receiver performs less calls to upper stacks, less wakes up.
> This also reduces cpu usage on the sender, as it receives less ACK
> packets.
>
> Note that reducing number of wakes up increases cpu efficiency, but can
> decrease QPS, as applications wont have the chance to warmup cpu caches
> doing a partial read of RPC requests/answers if they fit in one skb.

Speaking of QPS, what happens to 200 TCP_RR tests when the feature is 
enabled?

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-06  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-06  0:55 [PATCH net-next] net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer Eric Dumazet
2014-11-06  1:38 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2014-11-06  2:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-06  2:39     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-06 16:42       ` Rick Jones
2014-11-06 21:25 ` David Miller
2014-11-06 22:11   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-07  3:36     ` David Miller
2014-11-07  4:15       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-07  5:09       ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] " Eric Dumazet
2014-11-07 22:00         ` David Miller

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