Re: [PATCH net] vmxnet3: use gro callback when UPT is enabled

From: Ronak Doshi
Date: Thu Mar 16 2023 - 01:22:01 EST



> On 3/15/23, 9:13 PM, "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Can you provide some numbers to illustrate what the slow down is?

Below are some sample test numbers collected by our perf team.
Test socket & msg size base using only gro
1VM 14vcpu UDP stream receive 256K 256 bytes (packets/sec) 217.01 Kps 187.98 Kps -13.37%
16VM 2vcpu TCP stream send Thpt 8K 256 bytes (Gbps) 18.00 Gbps 17.02 Gbps -5.44%
1VM 14vcpu ResponseTimeMean Receive (in micro secs) 163 us 170 us -4.29%

In the past as well similar test was done. See
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/1308947605-4300-1-git-send-email-jesse@xxxxxxxxxx/

But, unfortunately there are no stats present in that discussion.

Thanks,
Ronak