2006-05-09 18:44:11

by Michael S. Tsirkin

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Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines

Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[email protected]>:
> According to some results from different resouces, NAPI only gives 3%-10% performance improvement on single CQ.

When you say performance you mean bandwidth.
But I think it should improve the CPU utilization on RX side significantly.
If it does, that an important metric as well.

> I am trying a simple NAPI patch on splitting CQ now to see how much performance there.

What are you using for a benchmark?

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