[PATCH net-next v2 0/2] net: mvneta: improve rx performance

[jszhang@marvell.com (Jisheng Zhang)]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:37:21 +0100 Gregory CLEMENT wrote:

> Hi Jisheng,
>  
>  On ven., f?vr. 17 2017, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> wrote:
> 
> > In hot code path such as mvneta_rx_hwbm() and mvneta_rx_swbm(), we may
> > access fields of rx_desc. The rx_desc is allocated by
> > dma_alloc_coherent, it's uncacheable if the device isn't cache
> > coherent, reading from uncached memory is fairly slow.  
> 
> Did you test it with HWBM support?

No I didn't test it for lacking of such HW, so it's appreciated if someone
can test with HWBM capable HW.

> 
> I am not sure ti will work in this case.

IMHO, if mvneta HW doesn't update rx_desc->buf_phys_addr, it can still work.
I don't have HWBM background, so above may be wrong. If this case doesn't
work for HWBM, I'll submit v3 to modify mvneta_rx_swbm() only.

Thanks,
Jisheng

> 
> Gregory
> 
> >
> > patch1 reuses the read out status to getting status field of rx_desc
> > again.
> >
> > patch2 uses cacheable memory to store the rx buffer DMA address.
> >
> > We get the following performance data on Marvell BG4CT Platforms
> > (tested with iperf):
> >
> > before the patch:
> > recving 1GB in mvneta_rx_swbm() costs 149265960 ns
> >
> > after the patch:
> > recving 1GB in mvneta_rx_swbm() costs 1421565640 ns
> >
> > We saved 4.76% time.
> >
> > RFC: can we do similar modification for tx? If yes, I can prepare a v2.
> >
> >
> > Basically, these two patches do what Arnd mentioned in [1].
> >
> > Hi Arnd,
> >
> > I added "Suggested-by you" tag, I hope you don't mind ;)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg405889.html
> >
> > Since v1:
> >   - correct the performance data typo
> >
> > Jisheng Zhang (2):
> >   net: mvneta: avoid getting status from rx_desc as much as possible
> >   net: mvneta: Use cacheable memory to store the rx buffer DMA address
> >
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > -- 
> > 2.11.0
> >
> >
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