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Without interrupt throttling, iperf server mode generates a CPU load of 100% (A53 1.2GHz). Also the throughput suffers with less than 900Mbit/s on a 1Gbit/s link. The reason is a high interrupt load with interrupts every ~20us. Reduce interrupt load by throttling of interrupts. Interrupt delay default is 64us. For iperf server mode the CPU load is significantly reduced to ~20% and the throughput reaches the maximum of 941MBit/s. Interrupts are generated every ~140us. RX and TX coalesce can be configured with ethtool. RX coalesce has priority over TX coalesce if the same interrupt is used. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@engleder-embedded.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.