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authorJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>2014-10-01 22:36:09 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-03 12:37:06 -0700
commit808e7ac0bdef31204184904f6b3ea356a30a9ed5 (patch)
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parentqdisc: bulk dequeue support for qdiscs with TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE (diff)
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qdisc: dequeue bulking also pickup GSO/TSO packets
The TSO and GSO segmented packets already benefit from bulking on their own. The TSO packets have always taken advantage of the only updating the tailptr once for a large packet. The GSO segmented packets have recently taken advantage of bulking xmit_more API, via merge commit 53fda7f7f9e8 ("Merge branch 'xmit_list'"), specifically via commit 7f2e870f2a4 ("net: Move main gso loop out of dev_hard_start_xmit() into helper.") allowing qdisc requeue of remaining list. And via commit ce93718fb7cd ("net: Don't keep around original SKB when we software segment GSO frames."). This patch allow further bulking of TSO/GSO packets together, when dequeueing from the qdisc. Testing: Measuring HoL (Head-of-Line) blocking for TSO and GSO, with netperf-wrapper. Bulking several TSO show no performance regressions (requeues were in the area 32 requeues/sec). Bulking several GSOs does show small regression or very small improvement (requeues were in the area 8000 requeues/sec). Using ixgbe 10Gbit/s with GSO bulking, we can measure some additional latency. Base-case, which is "normal" GSO bulking, sees varying high-prio queue delay between 0.38ms to 0.47ms. Bulking several GSOs together, result in a stable high-prio queue delay of 0.50ms. Using igb at 100Mbit/s with GSO bulking, shows an improvement. Base-case sees varying high-prio queue delay between 2.23ms to 2.35ms Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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