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net: increase receive packet quantum

This patch gets about 1.25% back on tbench regression.

My change to NAPI for multiqueue support changed the time limit on
network receive processing.  Under sustained loads like tbench, this
can cause the receiver to reschedule prematurely. 

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemminger 16 年之前
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共有 1 個文件被更改,包括 4 次插入7 次删除
  1. 4 7
      net/core/dev.c

+ 4 - 7
net/core/dev.c

@@ -2373,7 +2373,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_schedule);
 static void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
 {
 	struct list_head *list = &__get_cpu_var(softnet_data).poll_list;
-	unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
+	unsigned long time_limit = jiffies + 2;
 	int budget = netdev_budget;
 	void *have;
 
@@ -2384,13 +2384,10 @@ static void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
 		int work, weight;
 
 		/* If softirq window is exhuasted then punt.
-		 *
-		 * Note that this is a slight policy change from the
-		 * previous NAPI code, which would allow up to 2
-		 * jiffies to pass before breaking out.  The test
-		 * used to be "jiffies - start_time > 1".
+		 * Allow this to run for 2 jiffies since which will allow
+		 * an average latency of 1.5/HZ.
 		 */
-		if (unlikely(budget <= 0 || jiffies != start_time))
+		if (unlikely(budget <= 0 || time_after(jiffies, time_limit)))
 			goto softnet_break;
 
 		local_irq_enable();