Re: [Fwd: [E1000] NAPI re-insertion w/ changes]

[Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Lunz writes:
 > Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
 > >  Can you test the patch I sent for 5.0.43 with your equipment/setup?
 > 
 > We have a winner! I called the driver with your patch 5.0.43-k1-ro1. I
 > also removed all the cyclesoak lines; all they really show is that
 > throughput is really sensitive to how much CPU time ksoftirqd gets.
 > 
 > http://gtf.org/lunz/linux/net/perf/ is still the url.

 Excellent!

 We have a flat performance curve at ~350 kpps at any load and packet size 
 again. Of course this can be improved further.

 I think Intel still did the hard work but left the "fine" tuning and testing 
 for us. :-) 

 I guess we propose the patch to maintainers.

 Cheers
                                                --ro