From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] net: thunderbolt: Update ring indices only after all frames are queued
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 10:21:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902082128.1148463-3-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902082128.1148463-1-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Take advantage of the new API and update the ring producer/consumer
indices only after the frames have been queued. This reduces the number
of doorbell register writes from one per frame to one per batch.
Measured using iperf3 over a Thunderbolt/USB4 net connection between
Arrow Lake and Panther Lake systems (average of three runs):
before after
~14.3 Gbit/s ~15.3 Gbit/s
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
---
drivers/net/thunderbolt/main.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/thunderbolt/main.c b/drivers/net/thunderbolt/main.c
index d9fb587a62c5..cf51b9c39f4e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/thunderbolt/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/thunderbolt/main.c
@@ -540,11 +540,12 @@ static int tbnet_alloc_rx_buffers(struct tbnet *net, unsigned int nbuffers)
trace_tbnet_alloc_rx_frame(index, tf->page, dma_addr,
DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
- tb_ring_rx(ring->ring, &tf->frame);
+ tb_ring_rx_more(ring->ring, &tf->frame);
ring->prod++;
}
+ tb_ring_notify(ring->ring);
return 0;
err_free:
@@ -1243,7 +1244,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t tbnet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
goto err_drop;
for (i = 0; i < frame_index + 1; i++)
- tb_ring_tx(net->tx_ring.ring, &frames[i]->frame);
+ tb_ring_tx_more(net->tx_ring.ring, &frames[i]->frame);
+ tb_ring_notify(net->tx_ring.ring);
if (net->svc->prtcstns & TBNET_MATCH_FRAGS_ID)
atomic_inc(&net->frame_id);
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 8:21 [PATCH 0/2] thunderbolt / net: Allow batching of descriptors Mika Westerberg
2026-09-02 8:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] thunderbolt: " Mika Westerberg
2026-09-02 8:21 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2026-09-05 20:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: thunderbolt: Update ring indices only after all frames are queued Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-07 5:53 ` Mika Westerberg
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