On 29.12.22 09:27, Alexandra Winter wrote: > > > On 01.10.22 01:37, Saeed Mahameed wrote: >> On 26 Sep 12:06, Alexandra Winter wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >>> >>> Saeed, >>> As discussed at LPC, could you please consider adding a workaround to the >>> Mellanox driver, to use non-SG SKBs for small messages? As mentioned above >>> we are seeing 13% throughput degradation, if 2 pages need to be mapped >>> instead of 1. >>> >>> While Eric's ideas sound very promising, just using non-SG in these cases >>> should be enough to mitigate the performance regression we see. >> >> Hi Alexandra, sorry for the late response. >> >> Yeas linearizing small messages makes sense, but will require some careful >> perf testing. >> >> We will do our best to include this in the next kernel release cycle. >> I will take it with the mlx5e team next week, everybody is on vacation this >> time of year :). >> >> Thanks, >> Saeed. > > Hello Saeed, > may I ask whether you had a chance to include such a patch in the 6.2 kernel? > Or is this still on your ToDo list? > I haven't seen anything like this on the mailing list, but I may have overlooked it. > All the best for 2023 > Alexandra Hello Saeed, any news about linearizing small messages? Is there any way we could be of help? Kind regards Alexandra
