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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] sky2: skb recycling
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:22:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090618142204.29f29fda@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.WNT.2.00.0906181411470.6076@jbrandeb-desk1.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:13:20 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > This patch implements skb recycling. It reclaims transmitted skb's
> > for use in the receive ring.
> 
> Was sky2 able to show any gain in forwarding performance due to this 
> patch?  Was it significant?  What kind of machine was used to test?

no not really, sky2 has other issue which hurt performance.


-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-17 17:30 [PATCH 0/9] sky2 driver patches Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 1/9] sky2: turn off pause during shutdown Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:50   ` David Miller
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 2/9] sky2: more receive shutdown Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:50   ` David Miller
2009-06-20  7:14   ` Graham Murray
2009-06-22  5:13     ` Graham Murray
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 3/9] sky2: PCI irq issues Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:50   ` David Miller
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 4/9] sky2: fix shutdown synchronization Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:50   ` David Miller
2009-06-18 23:25   ` Mike McCormack
2009-06-18 23:41     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18 23:53       ` Mike McCormack
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 5/9] sky2: receive counter update Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:51   ` David Miller
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 6/9] sky2: reduce default transmit ring Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:51   ` David Miller
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 7/9] sky2: skb recycling Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:51   ` David Miller
2009-06-18 21:13   ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2009-06-18 21:22     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 8/9] sky2: add GRO support Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:52   ` David Miller
2009-06-17 17:30 ` [PATCH 9/9] sky2: version 1.23 Stephen Hemminger
2009-06-18  1:52   ` David Miller

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