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Re: Re: How to use IP/UDP/TCP checksum offload HW?
On 07/06/2011, at 10:57 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-06-07, Laurie Gellatly <laurie.gellatly@netic.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried to enable this before without success.
>
> Ah yes, I saw your (unanswered) post from a few years back asking
> about this. I was hoping there had been some progress since then.
>
>> I agree that its a waste of processor time when it can be performed
>> in hardware.
>
> The last time I did some profiling, IP checksum calculation was a
> pretty significant bottleneck for TCP throughput. Back in the NetBSD
> stack days, I got about a 20% improvement in throughput by writing my
> own assembly-language IP checksum routine for ARM7. The FreeBSD C
> implementation and more recent versions of gcc do almost as well as
> hand-tuned assembly, but it's still a big percentage of CPU usage in
> TCP communications -- and it will be even worse now that I have a chip
> that does scatter-gather DMA. A part for US $4 that has IP checksum
> offloading and scatter-gather DMA. Back when I was a new grad...
>
>> Must we look at the latest BSD code to see how to implement this?
>
> Maybe. Or there might be a simpler way to do it. I would guess that
> the current FreeBSD has an API to configure this on a per-interface
> basis at run-time.
>
> If we can assume that there is only one external interface, then we
> don't need any API or runtime checks, just a few strategic #if/#endif
> pairs and some CDL to control them.
>
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> Grant
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So how do we progress this?
Should we offline exchange the mods we've each tried (code and CDL)?
...Laurie:{)
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