On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 15:37 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 15:18 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > attached patch brings much better results
> >
> > lpq83:~# ./netperf -H 7.7.8.84 -l 10 -Cc
> > MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.8.84
> > () port 0 AF_INET
> > Recv Send Send Utilization Service
> > Demand
> > Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv
> > Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local
> > remote
> > bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB
> >
> > 87380 16384 16384 10.00 8043.82 2.32 5.34 0.566
> > 1.304
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/csum-partial_64.c b/arch/x86/lib/csum-partial_64.c
> []
> > @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ static unsigned do_csum(const unsigned char *buff,
> > unsigned len)
> > zero = 0;
> > count64 = count >> 3;
> > while (count64) {
> > - asm("addq 0*8(%[src]),%[res]\n\t"
> > + asm("prefetch 5*64(%[src])\n\t"
>
> Might the prefetch size be too big here?
To be effective, you need to prefetch well ahead of time.
5*64 seems common practice (check arch/x86/lib/copy_page_64.S)
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