As Rick states, this fixes a performance issue with the 4.4 kernel for us.
Tested-by: Juerg Haefliger
On 09/28/2016 05:13 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
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> Here is a quick look at performance tests for the result of trying the
> prototype fix for the packet reordering problem with VMs sending over
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Here is a quick look at performance tests for the result of trying the
prototype fix for the packet reordering problem with VMs sending over
an XPS-configured NIC. In particular, the Emulex/Avago/Broadcom
Skyhawk. The fix was applied to a 4.4 kernel.
Before: 3884 Mbit/s
After: 8897 Mbit/s
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This patch set introduces transmit flow steering. The idea is that we
record the transmit queues in a flow table that is indexed by skbuff.
The flow table entries have two values: the queue_index and the head cnt
of packets from the TX queue. We only allow a queue to change for a flow
if the tail c
