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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 08/14] mlx4: use order-0 pages for RX
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:11:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANn89iJayq1r2hLQJSHA1YvZGDOxNuViucf=+syL6BEmFkc2RQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S36xcEJ9YssZtzQKOy-tufrWWJO533J0nTEzp_ckb5dVjA@mail.gmail.com>

> You're admitting that Eric's patches improve driver quality,
> stability, and performance but you're not allowing this in the kernel
> because "we know what benchmarks our customers are going to run".

Note that I do not particularly care if these patches go in 4.11 or 4.12 really.

I already backported them into our 4.3 based kernel.

I guess that we could at least propose the trivial patch for stable releases,
since PowerPC arches really need it.

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index cec59bc264c9ac197048fd7c98bcd5cf25de0efd..0f6d2f3b7d54f51de359d4ccde21f4585e6b7852
100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@
 /* Use the maximum between 16384 and a single page */
 #define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_SIZE     PAGE_ALIGN(16384)

-#define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_PREFER_ORDER     PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
+#define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_PREFER_ORDER min_t(int, get_order(32768),
         \
+                                        PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)

 /* Receive fragment sizes; we use at most 3 fragments (for 9600 byte MTU
  * and 4K allocations) */

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-16 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-13 19:58 [PATCH v3 net-next 00/14] mlx4: order-0 allocations and page recycling Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 01/14] mlx4: use __skb_fill_page_desc() Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 02/14] mlx4: dma_dir is a mlx4_en_priv attribute Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 03/14] mlx4: remove order field from mlx4_en_frag_info Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 04/14] mlx4: get rid of frag_prefix_size Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 05/14] mlx4: rx_headroom is a per port attribute Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 06/14] mlx4: reduce rx ring page_cache size Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 07/14] mlx4: removal of frag_sizes[] Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 08/14] mlx4: use order-0 pages for RX Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 20:51   ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-13 21:09     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 23:16       ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-13 23:22         ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 23:26           ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-13 23:29             ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 23:47               ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-14  0:22                 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14  0:34                   ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-14  0:46                     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14  0:47                       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14  0:57                       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14  1:32                         ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-14 12:12         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-02-14 13:45           ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14 14:12             ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14 14:56             ` Tariq Toukan
2017-02-14 15:51               ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14 16:03                 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14 17:29                 ` Tom Herbert
2017-02-15 16:42                   ` Tariq Toukan
2017-02-15 16:57                     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-16 13:08                       ` Tariq Toukan
2017-02-16 15:47                         ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-16 17:05                         ` Tom Herbert
2017-02-16 17:11                           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2017-02-16 20:49                             ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-02-16 19:03                           ` David Miller
2017-02-16 21:06                             ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-02-14 17:04               ` David Miller
2017-02-14 17:17                 ` David Laight
2017-02-14 17:22                   ` David Miller
2017-02-14 19:38                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-02-14 19:59                   ` David Miller
2017-02-14 17:29               ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-14 18:46                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-02-14 19:02                   ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14 20:02                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-02-14 21:56                       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-14 19:06                   ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-14 19:50                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-02-22 16:22   ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-22 17:23     ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-22 17:58       ` David Laight
2017-02-22 18:21       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-23  1:08         ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-23  2:06           ` Eric Dumazet
2017-02-23  2:18             ` Alexander Duyck
2017-02-23 14:02               ` Tariq Toukan
2017-02-24  9:42             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-03-12 14:57             ` Eric Dumazet
2017-03-12 15:29               ` Eric Dumazet
2017-03-12 15:49                 ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-03-12 16:49                   ` Eric Dumazet
2017-03-13  9:20                     ` Saeed Mahameed
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 09/14] mlx4: add page recycling in receive path Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 10/14] mlx4: add rx_alloc_pages counter in ethtool -S Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 11/14] mlx4: do not access rx_desc from mlx4_en_process_rx_cq() Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 12/14] mlx4: factorize page_address() calls Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 13/14] mlx4: make validate_loopback() more generic Eric Dumazet
2017-02-13 19:58 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 14/14] mlx4: remove duplicate code in mlx4_en_process_rx_cq() Eric Dumazet
2017-02-17 16:00 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 00/14] mlx4: order-0 allocations and page recycling David Miller

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