git: igb: Don't update TDT upon very packets transmitted
Sepherosa Ziehau
sephe at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Thu Nov 22 04:15:37 PST 2012
commit 871c0e2b6879cde2fe8b1c76bc3ae0040abb975c
Author: Sepherosa Ziehau <sephe at dragonflybsd.org>
Date: Thu Nov 22 20:02:31 2012 +0800
igb: Don't update TDT upon very packets transmitted
The TDT is updated only after certain amount of TX descriptors are
added to the hardware TX ring. The default value of the amount of
TX descriptors are 8. This value could be further tuned by per-device
sysctl node hw.igbX.tx_wreg_nsegs.
CPU usage when transmitting 18bytes tiny UDP datagrams @1.48Mpps with
82575 on AMD970 (3500Mhz) are reduced from 55% to 38% with the default
value.
Inspired-by: FreeBSD netmap's paper
Summary of changes:
sys/dev/netif/igb/if_igb.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
sys/dev/netif/igb/if_igb.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/871c0e2b6879cde2fe8b1c76bc3ae0040abb975c
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