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From: Furong Xu <0x1207@gmail•com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch•org>,
	Brad Griffis <bgriffis@nvidia•com>,
	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman•stormreply.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel•com>,
	Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly•com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn•ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail•com>,
	xfr@outlook•com,
	"linux-tegra@vger•kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/4] net: stmmac: Switch to zero-copy in non-XDP RX path
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:39:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250126103952.00005556@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09442385-573c-4756-8c30-296631bc6272@lunn.ch>

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:08:12 +0100, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch> wrote:

> > It is recommended to disable the "SPH feature" by default unless
> > some certain cases depend on it. Like Ido said, two large buffers
> > being allocated from the same page pool for each packet, this is a
> > huge waste of memory, and brings performance drops for most of
> > general cases.  
> 
> I don't know this driver, but it looks like SPH is required for
> NETIF_F_GRO? Can you add this flag to hw_features, but not
> wanted_features and leave SPH disabled until ethtool is used to enable
> GRO?

SPH has its own ethtool command, stmmac driver does not implement yet.
see:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20250114142852.3364986-1-ap420073@gmail.com/

> Are there other use cases where SPH is needed?

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20240910171458.219195-1-almasrymina@google.com/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20250116231704.2402455-1-dw@davidwei.uk/

The stmmac driver does not support both of them, but it will someday :)

  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-26  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-15  3:27 [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: stmmac: RX performance improvement Furong Xu
2025-01-15  3:27 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/4] net: stmmac: Switch to zero-copy in non-XDP RX path Furong Xu
2025-01-15 16:58   ` Larysa Zaremba
2025-01-16  2:05   ` Yanteng Si
2025-01-23 14:06   ` Jon Hunter
2025-01-23 16:35     ` Furong Xu
2025-01-23 19:53       ` Brad Griffis
2025-01-23 21:48         ` Andrew Lunn
2025-01-24  2:42           ` Furong Xu
2025-01-24 13:15             ` Thierry Reding
2025-01-28 20:04               ` Lucas Stach
2025-01-25 10:20             ` Ido Schimmel
2025-01-25 14:43               ` Furong Xu
2025-01-26  8:41                 ` Ido Schimmel
2025-01-26 10:37                   ` Furong Xu
2025-01-26 11:35                     ` Ido Schimmel
2025-01-26 12:56                       ` Furong Xu
2025-01-25 15:03               ` Furong Xu
2025-01-25 19:08                 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-01-26  2:39                   ` Furong Xu [this message]
2025-01-27 13:28                 ` Thierry Reding
2025-01-29 14:51                   ` Jon Hunter
2025-02-07  9:07                     ` Furong Xu
2025-02-07 13:42                       ` Jon Hunter
2025-01-24  1:53         ` Furong Xu
2025-01-24 15:14           ` Andrew Lunn
2025-01-15  3:27 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/4] net: stmmac: Set page_pool_params.max_len to a precise size Furong Xu
2025-01-15 10:07   ` Yanteng Si
2025-01-15  3:27 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/4] net: stmmac: Optimize cache prefetch in RX path Furong Xu
2025-01-15 16:24   ` Yanteng Si
2025-01-15  3:27 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/4] net: stmmac: Convert prefetch() to net_prefetch() for received frames Furong Xu
2025-01-15 16:33   ` Yanteng Si
2025-01-15 16:35   ` Larysa Zaremba
2025-01-15 17:35   ` Joe Damato
2025-01-16 11:40 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: stmmac: RX performance improvement patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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