Re: [net-next 11/15] net/mlx5e: RX, Hook NAPIs to page pools

[Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 19:13 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:38:46 -0700 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > From: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
> > 
> > Linking the NAPI to the rq page_pool to improve page_pool cache
> > usage during skb recycling.
> > 
> > Here are the observed improvements for a iperf single stream
> > test case:
> > 
> > - For 1500 MTU and legacy rq, seeing a 20% improvement of cache
> > usage.
> > 
> > - For 9K MTU, seeing 33-40 % page_pool cache usage improvements for
> > both striding and legacy rq (depending if the application is
> > running on
> > the same core as the rq or not).
> 
> I think you'll need a strategically placed page_pool_unlink_napi()
> once
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230419182006.719923-1-kuba@kernel.org/
> gets merged (which should me in minutes). Would you be able to follow
> up on this tomorrow?

Thanks for the tip Jakub.

There's no "swap" stage in mlx5 (the page pool is destroyed while NAPI
is still disabled). So I think the page_pool_unlink_napi that you added
in page_pool_destroy is sufficient.

Thanks,
Dragos