From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] virtio_net: BQL?
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 16:31:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a11eee78-b2a1-3dbc-4821-b5f4bfaae819@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210517160036.4093d3f2@hermes.local>
On 5/18/21 1:00 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> The Azure network driver (netvsc) also does not have BQL. Several years ago
> I tried adding it but it benchmarked worse and there is the added complexity
> of handling the accelerated networking VF path.
>
Note that NIC with many TX queues make BQL almost useless, only adding extra
overhead.
We should probably make BQL something that can be manually turned on/off.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-19 14:31 UTC|newest]
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2021-05-17 21:48 ` Dave Taht
2021-05-17 23:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-05-17 23:32 ` Dave Taht
2021-05-18 2:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-05-19 14:31 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2021-05-19 22:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-05-24 2:53 ` Jason Wang
2021-05-24 9:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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