Re: [PATCH net-next 03/21] ethtool, stats: introduce standard XDP statistics
From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-08-05 02:14:18
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From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-08-05 02:14:18
Also in:
bpf, lkml, netdev
On Wed, 2021-08-04 at 18:43 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
On 8/4/21 12:27 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote:quoted
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I just ran some quick tests with my setup and measured about 1.2% worst1.2% is a lot ! what was the test ? what is the change ?I did say "quick test ... not exhaustive" and it was definitely eyeballing a pps change over a small time window. If multiple counters are bumped 20-25 million times a second (e.g. XDP drop case), how measurable is it? I was just trying to ballpark the overhead - 1%, 5%, more? If it is <~ 1% then there is no performance argument in which case let's do the right thing for users - export via existing APIs.
from experience I don't believe it can be more than 1% and yes on existing APIs !