On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:25:25AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > OK good news here, the performance drop on the myri was caused by a > problem between the keyboard and the chair. After the reboot series, > I forgot to reload the firmware so the driver used the less efficient > firmware from the NIC (it performs just as if LRO is disabled). > > That makes me think that I should try 3.8-rc2 since LRO was removed > there :-/
Just for the record, I tested 3.8-rc2, and the myri works as fast with GRO there as it used to work with LRO in previous kernels. The softirq work has increased from 26 to 48% but there is no performance drop when using GRO anymore. Andrew has done a good job ! Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
