On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 17:06 -0400, Alexander Duyck wrote: > So these are the patches needed to enable tunnel segmentation > offloads on > the igb, igbvf, ixgbe, and ixgbevf drivers. In addition this patch > extends > the i40e and i40evf drivers to include segmentation support for > tunnels > with outer checksums. > > The net performance gain for these patches are pretty significant. > In the > case of i40e a tunnel with outer checksums showed the following > improvement: > Throughput Throughput Local Local Result > Units CPU Service Tag > Util Demand > % > 14066.29 10^6bits/s 3.49 0.651 "before" > 20618.16 10^6bits/s 3.09 0.393 "after" > > For ixgbe similar results were seen: > Throughput Throughput Local Local Result > Units CPU Service Tag > Util Demand > % > 12879.89 10^6bits/s 10.00 0.763 "before" > 14286.77 10^6bits/s 5.74 0.395 "after" > > These patches all rely on the TSO_MANGLEID and GSO_PARTIAL patches so > I > would not recommend applying them until those patches have first been > applied.
Sorry I did not see this until after I tried applying your series. :-( Maybe the two dependent patches should have been in the series, so I and others do not waste their time. Or not send this until the two patches were accepted.
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