From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.com>,
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
Vimalkumar <j.vimal@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: change TX coalescing defaults
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:20:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1352168442.3140.32.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
mlx4 currently uses a too high tx coalescing setting, deferring
TX completion interrupts by up to 128 us.
With the recent skb_orphan() removal in commit 8112ec3b872,
performance of a single TCP flow is capped to ~4 Gbps, unless
we increase tcp_limit_output_bytes.
I suggest using 16 us instead of 128 us, allowing a finer control.
Performance of a single TCP flow is restored to previous levels,
while keeping TCP small queues fully enabled with default sysctl.
This patch is also a BQL prereq.
Reported-by: Vimalkumar <j.vimal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.com>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
---
By the way, is BQL addition planned for this driver ?
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index edd9cb8..2b23ca2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ static void mlx4_en_set_default_moderation(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
/* If we haven't received a specific coalescing setting
* (module param), we set the moderation parameters as follows:
* - moder_cnt is set to the number of mtu sized packets to
- * satisfy our coelsing target.
+ * satisfy our coalescing target.
* - moder_time is set to a fixed value.
*/
priv->rx_frames = MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TARGET;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index 9d27e42..8a5e70d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ enum {
#define MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TIME 0x10
#define MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_PKTS 16
-#define MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_TIME 0x80
+#define MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_TIME 0x10
#define MLX4_EN_RX_RATE_LOW 400000
#define MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TIME_LOW 0
next reply other threads:[~2012-11-06 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-06 2:20 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-11-06 8:04 ` [PATCH net-next] mlx4: change TX coalescing defaults Amir Mellanox
2012-11-06 11:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-07 15:30 ` Amir Vadai
2012-11-07 16:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-07 20:31 ` David Miller
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