On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Petar Penkov <peterpenko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Changes TUN driver to use napi_gro_receive() upon receiving packets
> rather than netif_rx_ni(). Adds flag IFF_NAPI that enables these
> changes and operation is not affected if the flag is disabled.  SKBs
> are constructed upon packet arrival and are queued to be processed
> later.
>
> The new path was evaluated with a benchmark with the following setup:
> Open two tap devices and a receiver thread that reads in a loop for
> each device. Start one sender thread and pin all threads to different
> CPUs. Send 1M minimum UDP packets to each device and measure sending
> time for each of the sending methods:
>         napi_gro_receive():     4.90s
>         netif_rx_ni():          4.90s
>         netif_receive_skb():    7.20s
>
> Signed-off-by: Petar Penkov <peterpenko...@gmail.com>

Thank you Petar.

Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <mahe...@google.com>

> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <mahe...@google.com>
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
> Cc: da...@davemloft.net
> Cc: ppen...@stanford.edu
> ---
>  drivers/net/tun.c           | 133 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>

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