From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt•eu>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip•com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] macb: support the 2-deep Tx queue on at91
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:06:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201014030630.GA12531@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201013170358.1a4d282a@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 05:03:58PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:09:41 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > while running some tests on my Breadbee board, I noticed poor network
> > Tx performance. I had a look at the driver (macb, at91ether variant)
> > and noticed that at91ether_start_xmit() immediately stops the queue
> > after sending a frame and waits for the interrupt to restart the queue,
> > causing a dead time after each packet is sent.
> >
> > The AT91RM9200 datasheet states that the controller supports two frames,
> > one being sent and the other one being queued, so I performed minimal
> > changes to support this. The transmit performance on my board has
> > increased by 50% on medium-sized packets (HTTP traffic), and with large
> > packets I can now reach line rate.
> >
> > Since this driver is shared by various platforms, I tried my best to
> > isolate and limit the changes as much as possible and I think it's pretty
> > reasonable as-is. I've run extensive tests and couldn't meet any
> > unexpected situation (no stall, overflow nor lockup).
> >
> > There are 3 patches in this series. The first one adds the missing
> > interrupt flag for RM9200 (TBRE, indicating the tx buffer is willing
> > to take a new packet). The second one replaces the single skb with a
> > 2-array and uses only index 0. It does no other change, this is just
> > to prepare the code for the third one. The third one implements the
> > queue. Packets are added at the tail of the queue, the queue is
> > stopped at 2 packets and the interrupt releases 0, 1 or 2 depending
> > on what the transmit status register reports.
>
> LGTM. There's always a chance that this will make other
> designs explode, but short of someone from Cadence giving
> us a timely review we have only one way to find that out.. :)
Not that much in fact, given that the at91ether_* functions are only
used by AT91RM9200 (whose datasheet I used to do this) and Mstar which
I used for the tests. I initially wanted to get my old SAM9G20 board
to boot until I noticed that it doesn't even use the same set of
functions, so the potential victims are extremely limited :-)
> Applied, thanks!
Thank you!
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-11 9:09 [PATCH net-next 0/3] macb: support the 2-deep Tx queue on at91 Willy Tarreau
2020-10-11 9:09 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] macb: add RM9200's interrupt flag TBRE Willy Tarreau
2020-10-11 9:09 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] macb: prepare at91 to use a 2-frame TX queue Willy Tarreau
2020-10-11 9:09 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] macb: support the two tx descriptors on at91rm9200 Willy Tarreau
2020-10-14 16:08 ` Claudiu.Beznea
2020-10-14 16:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-10-21 9:02 ` Claudiu.Beznea
2020-10-14 0:03 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] macb: support the 2-deep Tx queue on at91 Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-14 3:06 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2020-10-14 3:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-13 10:03 ` Alexandre Belloni
2020-11-13 19:44 ` Willy Tarreau
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