Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next RFC 0/5] xen-netback: TX grant mapping instead of copy

[Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/11/13 19:00, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>  >> Based on my investigations the packet get only copied if it is
> delivered to
>  >>Dom0 stack, which is due to this patch:
>  >>https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/20/363
>  >>That's a bit unfortunate, but as far as I know for the huge majority
> this use
>  >>case is not too important.
> > Likely to be true, but it would still be interesting to know how badly
> > this use case suffers with this change, and any increase in CPU usage
> > would be interesting to know about as well.
> I can't find my numbers, but as far as I remember it wasn't
> significantly worse than grant copy. I will check that again.
I've measured it now: with my patch it was 5.2 Gbps, without it 5.4. 
Both cases iperf in Dom0 maxed out its CPU, mostly in soft interrupt 
context, based on top.
Zoli


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