David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/08/2007 04:19:00 PM: > From: Krishna Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:01:14 +0530 > > > RESULTS: The performance improvement for TCP No Delay is in the range of -8% > > to 320% (with -8% being the sole negative), with many individual tests > > giving 50% or more improvement (I think it is to do with the hw slots > > getting full quicker resulting in more batching when the queue gets > > woken). The results for TCP is in the range of -11% to 93%, with most > > of the tests (8/12) giving improvements. > > Not because I think it obviates your work, but rather because I'm > curious, could you test a TSO-in-hardware driver converted to > batching and see how TSO alone compares to batching for a pure > TCP workload? > > I personally don't think it will help for that case at all as > TSO likely does better job of coalescing the work _and_ reducing > bus traffic as well as work in the TCP stack.
Definitely, I will try to do this. What do you generally think of the patch/implementation ? :) thanks, - KK - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
