[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 ] ixgbe: speed up transmit

Ananyev, Konstantin konstantin.ananyev at intel.com
Fri Dec 11 19:52:36 CET 2015


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemming at brocade.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 4:48 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org; Zhang, Helin; Ananyev, Konstantin
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 ] ixgbe: speed up transmit
> 
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:10:13 -0800
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming at brocade.com>
> >
> > The freeing of mbuf's in ixgbe is one of the observable hot spots
> > under load. Optimize it by doing bulk free of mbufs using code similar
> > to i40e and fm10k.
> >
> > Drop the no longer needed micro-optimization for the no refcount flag.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> 
> How come this patch got no review or comments?
> It gets a visible performance gain of up to 10% in some cases.
> 
> I understand maintainers are busy with internal work, but they need
> to read mailing list as well.

Yep, I missed it somehow.
BTW, by some reason I couldn't find it patchwork....
Was it submitted too late for 2.2 timeframe?
Anyway, about the patch itself: it looks good to me and indeed it provides 10%+
performance improvement.
So here is my ACK for it.
Konstantin


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