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Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored
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 53fda7f7 ("Merge branch 'xmit_list'"), specifically via commit 7f2e870f ("net: Move main gso loop out of dev_hard_start_xmit() into helper.") allowing qdisc requeue of remaining list. And via commit ce93718f ("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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