On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 17:06 -0400, Alexander Duyck wrote: >> So these are the patches needed to enable tunnel segmentation >> offloads on >> the igb, igbvf, ixgbe, and ixgbevf drivers. In addition this patch >> extends >> the i40e and i40evf drivers to include segmentation support for >> tunnels >> with outer checksums. >> >> The net performance gain for these patches are pretty significant. >> In the >> case of i40e a tunnel with outer checksums showed the following >> improvement: >> Throughput Throughput Local Local Result >> Units CPU Service Tag >> Util Demand >> % >> 14066.29 10^6bits/s 3.49 0.651 "before" >> 20618.16 10^6bits/s 3.09 0.393 "after" >> >> For ixgbe similar results were seen: >> Throughput Throughput Local Local Result >> Units CPU Service Tag >> Util Demand >> % >> 12879.89 10^6bits/s 10.00 0.763 "before" >> 14286.77 10^6bits/s 5.74 0.395 "after" >> >> These patches all rely on the TSO_MANGLEID and GSO_PARTIAL patches so >> I >> would not recommend applying them until those patches have first been >> applied. > > Sorry I did not see this until after I tried applying your series. :-( > > Maybe the two dependent patches should have been in the series, so I > and others do not waste their time. Or not send this until the two > patches were accepted.
Sorry I meant to send these as an RFC but sent it out with the next-queue tag as I had gotten a bit distracted. I shouldn't need to resubmit these until the other patches are accepted so I will probably follow that route. Thanks. - Alex
