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* [PATCH net-next v7 0/2] net: mana: add ethtool private flag for full-page RX buffers
@ 2026-05-06 16:58 Dipayaan Roy
  2026-05-06 16:58 ` [PATCH net-next v7 1/2] net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch Dipayaan Roy
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From: Dipayaan Roy @ 2026-05-06 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kys, haiyangz, wei.liu, decui, andrew+netdev, davem, edumazet,
	kuba, pabeni, leon, longli, kotaranov, horms, shradhagupta,
	ssengar, ernis, shirazsaleem, linux-hyperv, netdev, linux-kernel,
	linux-rdma, stephen, jacob.e.keller, dipayanroy, leitao, kees,
	john.fastabend, hawk, bpf, daniel, ast, sdf, yury.norov

On some ARM64 platforms with 4K PAGE_SIZE, utilizing page_pool 
fragments for allocation in the RX refill path (~2kB buffer per fragment)
causes 15-20% throughput regression under high connection counts
(>16 TCP streams at 180+ Gbps). Using full-page buffers on these
platforms shows no regression and restores line-rate performance.

This behavior is observed on a single platform; other platforms
perform better with page_pool fragments, indicating this is not a
page_pool issue but platform-specific.

This series adds an ethtool private flag "full-page-rx" to let the
user opt in to one RX buffer per page:

  ethtool --set-priv-flags eth0 full-page-rx on

There is no behavioral change by default. The flag can be persisted
via udev rule for affected platforms.

Changes in v7:
  - Rebased onto net-next.
  - Retained private flag approach after David Wei's testing on
    Grace (ARM64) confirmed that fragment mode outperforms
    full-page mode on other platforms, validating this is a
    single-platform workaround rather than a generic issue.
Changes in v6:
  - Added missed maintainers.
Changes in v5:
  - Split prep refactor into separate patch (patch 1/2)
Changes in v4:
  - Dropping the smbios string parsing and add ethtool priv flag
    to reconfigure the queues with full page rx buffers.
Changes in v3:
  - changed u8* to char*
Changes in v2:
  - separate reading string index and the string, remove inline.

Dipayaan Roy (2):
  net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to
    use switch
  net: mana: force full-page RX buffers via ethtool private flag

 drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c |  22 ++-
 .../ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c    | 164 ++++++++++++++----
 include/net/mana/mana.h                       |   8 +
 3 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

-- 
2.43.0


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