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Gavi Teitz authored
Enabled checksum and TSO offloads for the representors, in order to increase their performance, which is required to increase the performance of flows that cannot be offloaded. Checksum offloads contribute to a general acceleration of all traffic (to around 150%), whereas the TSO offload contributes to a prominent acceleration of the representor's TX for traffic flows with larger than MTU sized packets (to around 200%). This is the usual case for TCP streams, as the PF, which serves as the uplink representor, and the VF representors employ GRO before forwarding the packets to the representor. GRO was enabled implicitly for the representors beforehand, and is explicitly enabled here to ensure that the representors preserve the performance boost it provides (of around 200%) when working in tandem with the TSO offload by the forwardee, which is the standard case as both the PF and the VF representors employ HW TSO. The impact of these changes can be seen in the following measurements taken on a setup of a VM over a VF, connected to OVS via the VF representor, to an external host: Before current changes: TCP Throughput [Gb/s] External host to VM ~ 10.5 VM to external host ~ 23.5 With just checksum offloads enabled: TCP Throughput [Gb/s] External host to VM ~ 14.9 VM to external host ~ 28.5 With the TSO offload also enabled: TCP Throughput [Gb/s] External host to VM ~ 30.5 Signed-off-by:
Gavi Teitz <gavi@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by:
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by:
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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