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

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com (Gregory CLEMENT)]

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?

I am  not sure ti will work in this case.

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(-)
>
> -- 
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>
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