NeilBrown <n...@brown.name> writes: > I got your patch working on 4.20-rc5 and did a performance comparison. > With the staging driver (using iperf3) I get > 220 MBit/sec in > 680 MBit/sec out > > with the patched mainline driver I get > 190 MBit/sec in > 93 MBit/sec out > > (numbers are a bit rubbery, but within 10%) > > I haven't looked into why this might be, but thought I would mention it. > > Strangely when I test with scp, I get about 10MB/sec in both directions > with both drivers. Maybe the CPU limits encryption speed. > > I have a 4.4-based kernel where I get 940MBit/sec both ways - using a > precursor of the current staging driver.
Yes, thanks for bringing this up. I should have mentioned that I haven't considered performance at all yet. Bjørn