From: Dipayaan Roy <dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com>
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Subject: [PATCH net-next,v9 0/2] net: mana: add ethtool private flag for full-page RX buffers
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 07:27:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260508142921.497921-1-dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
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 v9:
- Added coorect tree.
Changes in v8:
- Fixed queue_reset_work recovery by restoring port_is_up before
scheduling reset so the handler can properly re-attach.
- Simplified "err && schedule_port_reset" to "schedule_port_reset".
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 | 178 +++++++++++++++---
include/net/mana/mana.h | 8 +
3 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-08 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-08 14:27 Dipayaan Roy [this message]
2026-05-08 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next,v9 1/2] net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch Dipayaan Roy
2026-05-08 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next,v9 2/2] net: mana: force full-page RX buffers via ethtool private flag Dipayaan Roy
2026-05-08 21:35 ` sashiko-bot
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