Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:30:02 +0300

Hello.

On 04/22/2015 06:36 PM, David Miller wrote:

>>>>> +		if (!ravb_tx_free(ndev, q)) {
>>>>> +			netif_warn(priv, tx_queued, ndev, "TX FD exhausted.\n");
>>>>> +			netif_stop_queue(ndev);
>>>>> +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
>>>>> +			return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +	entry = priv->cur_tx[q] % priv->num_tx_ring[q];
>>>>> +	priv->cur_tx[q]++;
>>>>> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	if (skb_put_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
>>>>> +		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	priv->tx_skb[q][entry] = skb;
>>>>> +	buffer = PTR_ALIGN(priv->tx_buffers[q][entry], RAVB_ALIGN);
>>>>> +	memcpy(buffer, skb->data, skb->len);

>>>> ~1500 bytes memcpy(), not good...

>>>      I'm looking in the manual and not finding the hard requirement to have the
>>> buffer address aligned to 128 bytes (RAVB_ALIGN), sigh... Kimura-san?

>> There are the hardware requirement that the frame data must be aligned with
>> a 32-bit boundary in the URAM, see section 45A.3.3.1 Data Representation
>> in the manual.
>> I think that the original skb->data is almost aligned with 2 bytes boundary
>> by NET_IP_ALING, so we copied original skb->data to the local aligned buffer.

>> In addition, see section 45A.3.3.12 Tips for Optimizing Performance in Handling
>> Descriptors, it mentioned that frame data is accessed in blocks up to 128 bytes
>> and the number of 128 byte borders (addresses H'xxx00 and H'xxx80) and frame data
>> inside should be minimized.
>> So we set RAVB_ALIGN to 128 bytes.

> There is no way that copying is going to be faster than finding an adequate way
> to transmit directly out of the SKB memory.

> In this day and age there is simply no excuse for something like this, you will
> have to find a way.

    Hmm, I've been digging in the net core, and was unable to see where TX 
skb's get their NET_IP_ALIGN bytes reserved. Have I missed something? Probably 
need to print out skb's fields...

WBR, Sergei