[PATCH 0/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet bugfixes, etc.

[James K Lewis]

  Please don't be confused by the numbers in the 4M column, they don't 
mean anything to the end user. We had a bit better performance (approx. 
720 Mbps) at one time but at 100% CPU usage. These new patches lower the 
max. to about 700 Mbps but decrease CPU usage down to about 30% which I 
think will help all around. I have been testing this driver all night and 
have not found a problem yet. Consider this my Acked-by:  for all these 
patches.

Jim Lewis
Advisory Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center
512-838-7754






Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> 
10/11/2006 11:02 AM

To
Linas Vepstas <linas at austin.ibm.com>
cc
akpm at osdl.org, jeff at garzik.org, James K Lewis/Austin/IBM at ibmus, 
netdev at vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org, 
linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
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Re: [PATCH 0/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet bugfixes, etc.






On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:49, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Andrew, please apply/forward upstream.
> 
> The following set of 21 patches (!) are all aimed at the the 
> spidernet ethernet device driver. The spidernet is an etherenet
> controller built into the Toshiba southbridge for the PowerPC Cell
> processor. (This is the only device in existance that with this
> ethernet hardware in it).
> 
> These patches re-package/re-order/re-cleanup a previous
> set of patches I've previously mailed. Thus, some have
> been previously Acked-by lines, most do not. Most of
> these patches are tiny, and handle problems that cropped
> up during testing. Sorry about there being so many of them.
> 
> The first set of 12 patches fix a large variety of mostly 
> minor bugs. 
> 
> The important patches are 13 through 17: these overcome a 
> debilitating performance problem on transmit (6 megabits
> per second !!) on transmit of patches 500 bytes or larger.
> After applying these, I am able to get the following:
> 
> pkt sz   speed (100K buffs)       speed (4M buffs)
> ------   -----------------        ----------------
> 1500     700 Mbits/sec            951 Mbits/sec
> 1000     658 Mbits/sec            770
> 800      600                      648
> 500      500                      500
> 300      372                      372
> 60        70                       70
> 
> Above buf size refers to /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default

Excellent work! I guess this the best tx performance we've
seen so far on this hardware.

Consider this as an Acked-by: for all the patches, I'll save
the effort of replying to each one of them separately.

Jeff, do you plan on merging these fixes for 2.6.19?

                 Arnd <><

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