That's...way better than I expected given how minimal my changes are. For some context, the ag71xx driver is special in that it does not seem to do any hardware offloading to the NIC.
As far as I understand this change, GRO takes 1500 MTU packets and packs then into 64Kb blocks which the kernel then processes. I would be curious if anyone can do latency comparisons before this change and after. I do know this driver to have lower latency than others due to lack of offloads. I guess all that's left is to add GSO support to the driver. That seems like a lot more work than a three line change though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On Sun, 2017-09-03 at 23:16 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Sunday, September 3, 2017 11:35:46 AM CEST Rosen Penev wrote: > > On a TL-WN710N, this patch increases iperf performance from ~92.5 > > to ~93.5 mbps. Keep in mind the WN710N is a 100mbps device. I > > expect greater numbers from gigabit devices. > > > > Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <ros...@gmail.com> > > --- > > I've done a quick test of the patch on my WD Range Extender. > (It has a Atheros AR9344 rev 2 SoC @ CPU:560.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz > The PHY is a AR8035, which supports 1 GBit/s Links) > > The range extender (DUT) was running iperf3 server in both tests. > Another desktop PC was acting as the iperf3 client. > > without the patch: > > Connecting to host range-extender, port 5201 > [ 4] local 192.168.8.7 port 51518 connected to 192.168.8.204 port > 5201 > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr Cwnd > [ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 23.5 MBytes 197 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 23.7 MBytes 199 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 23.6 MBytes 198 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 23.0 MBytes 193 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 23.4 MBytes 197 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 23.3 MBytes 195 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 23.4 MBytes 196 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 23.6 MBytes 198 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 23.1 MBytes 194 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 22.1 MBytes 185 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 233 MBytes 195 > Mbits/sec 0 sender > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 232 MBytes 195 > Mbits/sec receiver > > iperf Done. > > with the patch (gro enabled - this is done by default): > > Connecting to host range-extender, port 5201 > [ 4] local 192.168.8.7 port 52004 connected to 192.168.8.204 port > 5201 > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr Cwnd > [ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 32.7 MBytes 274 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 32.6 MBytes 274 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 32.4 MBytes 272 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 32.3 MBytes 271 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 32.5 MBytes 273 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 32.5 MBytes 273 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 32.6 MBytes 273 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 32.4 MBytes 272 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 32.6 MBytes 273 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > [ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 31.4 MBytes 264 Mbits/sec 0 106 > KBytes > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 324 MBytes 272 > Mbits/sec 0 sender > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 324 MBytes 272 > Mbits/sec receiver > > iperf Done. > > (range-extender) # ethtool -K eth0 gro off > > Connecting to host range-extender, port 5201 > [ 4] local 192.168.8.7 port 52120 connected to 192.168.8.204 port > 5201 > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr Cwnd > [ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 24.8 MBytes 208 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 23.6 MBytes 198 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 24.5 MBytes 206 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 23.9 MBytes 201 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 24.6 MBytes 207 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 24.7 MBytes 207 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 24.5 MBytes 206 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 24.0 MBytes 201 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 24.3 MBytes 204 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > [ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 24.5 MBytes 206 Mbits/sec 0 105 > KBytes > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 244 MBytes 204 > Mbits/sec 0 sender > [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 243 MBytes 204 > Mbits/sec receiver > > iperf Done. > > So, the throughput went from 195 Mbits/sec to 272 Mbits/sec. > The gain would be (272 Mbps - 195 Mbps) / 195 Mbps = 0.3949 ~ 40% > > Regards, > Christian _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
