Re: [PATCH,RFC] macvlan: Handle broadcasts inline if we have only a few macvlans.

2016-05-27 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:56:44AM -0700, Cong Wang wrote: > > Commit 412ca1550cbecb2c ("macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue") > > moved processing of all macvlan multicasts into a work queue. This > > causes a noticable performance regression when there is heavy multicast > > traffic on t

Re: [PATCH,RFC] macvlan: Handle broadcasts inline if we have only a few macvlans.

2016-05-27 Thread Cong Wang
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > Commit 412ca1550cbecb2c ("macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue") > moved processing of all macvlan multicasts into a work queue. This > causes a noticable performance regression when there is heavy multicast > traffic on the underl

[PATCH,RFC] macvlan: Handle broadcasts inline if we have only a few macvlans.

2016-05-26 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
Commit 412ca1550cbecb2c ("macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue") moved processing of all macvlan multicasts into a work queue. This causes a noticable performance regression when there is heavy multicast traffic on the underlying interface for multicast groups that the macvlan subinterfaces