Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 11/11] net/mlx5e: XDP TX xmit more

From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 06:44:18 -0700

On 16-09-07 05:42 AM, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Previously we rang XDP SQ doorbell on every forwarded XDP packet.
> 
> Here we introduce a xmit more like mechanism that will queue up more
> than one packet into SQ (up to RX napi budget) w/o notifying the hardware.
> 
> Once RX napi budget is consumed and we exit napi RX loop, we will
> flush (doorbell) all XDP looped packets in case there are such.
> 
> XDP forward packet rate:
> 
> Comparing XDP with and w/o xmit more (bulk transmit):
> 
> Streams     XDP TX       XDP TX (xmit more)
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 1           4.90Mpps      7.50Mpps
> 2           9.50Mpps      14.8Mpps
> 4           16.5Mpps      25.1Mpps
> 8           21.5Mpps      27.5Mpps*
> 16          24.1Mpps      27.5Mpps*
> 

Hi Saeed,

How many cores are you using with these numbers? Just a single
core? Or are streams being RSS'd across cores somehow.

> *It seems we hit a wall of 27.5Mpps, for 8 and 16 streams,
> we will be working on the analysis and will publish the conclusions
> later.
> 

Thanks,
John