[PATCH] net: mv643xx_eth: Add GRO support

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 11:27:03 EDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 04:47:49PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> I tried todays net-next on top of 3.9-rc6 without any gro patch, with
>> the initial
>> patch (Soeren) and your proposed patch (Willy). The results show that
>> both patches
>> allow a significant increase in throughput compared to
>> netif_receive_skb (!gro, !lro)
>> alone. Having gro with lro disabled gives some 2% more throughput
>> compared to lro only.
>
> Indeed this is consistent with my memories, since Eric improved the
> GRO path, it became faster than LRO on this chip.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether Soeren's or your proposal should
be submitted. But I insist on having one of them in, as GRO significantly
improves the common use case, is enabled by default, and not as
constrained as LRO.

Sebastian



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