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Commit 808e7ac0 authored by Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar Jesper Dangaard Brouer Committed by David S. Miller
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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 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: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5772e9a3
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