Re: [PATCH v3 18/18] NTB: Increase transport MTU to 64k from 16k

From: Jiang, Dave
Date: Tue Jun 09 2015 - 12:45:52 EST


On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 11:04 -0500, 'Bjorn Helgaas' via linux-ntb wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Benchmarking showed significant performance increase going from MTU
> > size
> > of 64k from 16k. Changing the default.
>
> This changelog doesn't parse. I think you mean "going from MTU size
> 16k to 64k."

Yes. Sorry about the confusion.

>
> The original value was 0x401e (16k + 0x1e), and the new value is
> exactly 64k. Please include a note about what that extra 0x1e was
> for
> and why it isn't needed in the new value.

Jon, can you comment on why there's the additional 30 bytes on top of
16k in the previous value?

>
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
> > b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
> > index ea237aeca28c..c87bc0cbd607 100644
> > --- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
> > +++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c
> > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static unsigned long max_mw_size;
> > module_param(max_mw_size, ulong, 0644);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_mw_size, "Limit size of large memory
> > windows");
> >
> > -static unsigned int transport_mtu = 0x401E;
> > +static unsigned int transport_mtu = 0x10000;
> > module_param(transport_mtu, uint, 0644);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(transport_mtu, "Maximum size of NTB transport
> > packets");
> >
> > --
> > 2.4.0.rc0.43.gcf8a8c6
> >
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