Re: [PATCH net-next v6 0/2] net: mana: add ethtool private flag for full-page RX buffers
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Apr 23 2026 - 12:33:53 EST
On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:48:11 -0700 Dipayaan Roy wrote:
> What I meant is that the atomic refcount cost itself does not appear to
> be unique to the affected platform. I see a similar ~5% overhead on
> another ARM64 platformi (different vendor) as well. However, on that platform
> there is no throughput delta between fragment mode and full-page mode; both reach
> line rate.
I wonder if it wouldn't be more expedient at this stage to just switch
to rx-buf-len rather than investigating in more detail. But we can wait
for more data if you prefer.
> Please let me know what David finds, and I can rework the patch
> accordingly.
Haven't heard back. I pinged him now.