Patch "net/mlx5e: Added BW check for DIM decision mechanism" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/mlx5e: Added BW check for DIM decision mechanism

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-mlx5e-added-bw-check-for-dim-decision-mechanism.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jun 29 18:57:46 CEST 2017
From: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 14:13:16 +0300
Subject: net/mlx5e: Added BW check for DIM decision mechanism

From: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>


[ Upstream commit c3164d2fc48fd4fa0477ab658b644559c3fe9073 ]

DIM (Dynamically-tuned Interrupt Moderation) is a mechanism designed for
changing the channel interrupt moderation values in order to reduce CPU
overhead for all traffic types.
Until now only interrupt and packet rate were sampled.
We found a scenario on which we get a false indication since a change in
DIM caused more aggregation and reduced packet rate while increasing BW.

We now regard a change as succesfull iff:
current_BW > (prev_BW + threshold) or
current_BW ~= prev_BW and current_PR > (prev_PR + threshold) or
current_BW ~= prev_BW and current_PR ~= prev_PR and
    current_IR < (prev_IR - threshold)
Where BW = Bandwidth, PR = Packet rate and IR = Interrupt rate

Improvements (ConnectX-4Lx 25GbE, single RX queue, LRO off)
    --------------------------------------------------
    packet size | before[Mb/s] | after[Mb/s] | gain  |
    2B          | 343.4        | 359.4       |  4.5% |
    16B         | 2739.7       | 2814.8      |  2.7% |
    64B         | 9739         | 10185.3     |  4.5% |

Fixes: cb3c7fd4f839 ("net/mlx5e: Support adaptive RX coalescing")
Signed-off-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h       |    2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx_am.c |   41 +++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
@@ -283,12 +283,14 @@ struct mlx5e_dma_info {
 
 struct mlx5e_rx_am_stats {
 	int ppms; /* packets per msec */
+	int bpms; /* bytes per msec */
 	int epms; /* events per msec */
 };
 
 struct mlx5e_rx_am_sample {
 	ktime_t		time;
 	unsigned int	pkt_ctr;
+	unsigned int    byte_ctr;
 	u16		event_ctr;
 };
 
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx_am.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx_am.c
@@ -183,28 +183,27 @@ static void mlx5e_am_exit_parking(struct
 	mlx5e_am_step(am);
 }
 
+#define IS_SIGNIFICANT_DIFF(val, ref) \
+	(((100 * abs((val) - (ref))) / (ref)) > 10) /* more than 10% difference */
+
 static int mlx5e_am_stats_compare(struct mlx5e_rx_am_stats *curr,
 				  struct mlx5e_rx_am_stats *prev)
 {
-	int diff;
-
-	if (!prev->ppms)
-		return curr->ppms ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_BETTER :
-				    MLX5E_AM_STATS_SAME;
-
-	diff = curr->ppms - prev->ppms;
-	if (((100 * abs(diff)) / prev->ppms) > 10) /* more than 10% diff */
-		return (diff > 0) ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_BETTER :
-				    MLX5E_AM_STATS_WORSE;
-
-	if (!prev->epms)
-		return curr->epms ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_WORSE :
+	if (!prev->bpms)
+		return curr->bpms ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_BETTER :
 				    MLX5E_AM_STATS_SAME;
 
-	diff = curr->epms - prev->epms;
-	if (((100 * abs(diff)) / prev->epms) > 10) /* more than 10% diff */
-		return (diff < 0) ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_BETTER :
-				    MLX5E_AM_STATS_WORSE;
+	if (IS_SIGNIFICANT_DIFF(curr->bpms, prev->bpms))
+		return (curr->bpms > prev->bpms) ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_BETTER :
+						   MLX5E_AM_STATS_WORSE;
+
+	if (IS_SIGNIFICANT_DIFF(curr->ppms, prev->ppms))
+		return (curr->ppms > prev->ppms) ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_BETTER :
+						   MLX5E_AM_STATS_WORSE;
+
+	if (IS_SIGNIFICANT_DIFF(curr->epms, prev->epms))
+		return (curr->epms < prev->epms) ? MLX5E_AM_STATS_BETTER :
+						   MLX5E_AM_STATS_WORSE;
 
 	return MLX5E_AM_STATS_SAME;
 }
@@ -266,6 +265,7 @@ static void mlx5e_am_sample(struct mlx5e
 {
 	s->time	     = ktime_get();
 	s->pkt_ctr   = rq->stats.packets;
+	s->byte_ctr  = rq->stats.bytes;
 	s->event_ctr = rq->cq.event_ctr;
 }
 
@@ -278,12 +278,15 @@ static void mlx5e_am_calc_stats(struct m
 	/* u32 holds up to 71 minutes, should be enough */
 	u32 delta_us = ktime_us_delta(end->time, start->time);
 	unsigned int npkts = end->pkt_ctr - start->pkt_ctr;
+	unsigned int nbytes = end->byte_ctr - start->byte_ctr;
 
 	if (!delta_us)
 		return;
 
-	curr_stats->ppms =            (npkts * USEC_PER_MSEC) / delta_us;
-	curr_stats->epms = (MLX5E_AM_NEVENTS * USEC_PER_MSEC) / delta_us;
+	curr_stats->ppms = DIV_ROUND_UP(npkts * USEC_PER_MSEC, delta_us);
+	curr_stats->bpms = DIV_ROUND_UP(nbytes * USEC_PER_MSEC, delta_us);
+	curr_stats->epms = DIV_ROUND_UP(MLX5E_AM_NEVENTS * USEC_PER_MSEC,
+					delta_us);
 }
 
 void mlx5e_rx_am_work(struct work_struct *work)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from talgi@mellanox.com are

queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-added-bw-check-for-dim-decision-mechanism.patch
queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-wrong-indications-in-dim-due-to-counter-wraparound.patch