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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	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: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 08:42:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545BA513.2070801@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415241576.13896.62.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 11/05/2014 06:39 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 18:14 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 17:38 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of QPS, what happens to 200 TCP_RR tests when the feature is
>>> enabled?
>
> The possible reduction of QPS happens when you have a single flow like
> TCP_RR  -- -r 40000,40000
>
> (Because we have one single TCP packet with 40000 bytes of payload,
> application is waked up once when Push flag is received)
>
> So cpu effiency is way better, but application has to copy 40000 bytes
> in one go _after_ Push flag, instead of being able to copy part of the
> data _before_ receiving the Push flag.

Thanks.  That isn't too unlike what I've seen happen in the past with 
say an 8K request size and switching back and forth between a 1500 and 
9000 byte MTU.

happy benchmarking,

rick

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-06 16:43 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
2014-11-06  2:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-06  2:39     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-06 16:42       ` Rick Jones [this message]
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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