Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] net: mvneta: improve rx performance

From: Jisheng Zhang
Date: Fri Feb 17 2017 - 05:14:52 EST


On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:02:31 +0800
Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In hot code path such as mvneta_rx_hwbm() and mvneta_rx_swbm(), we may
> access fields of rx_desc. The rx_desc is allocated by
> dma_alloc_coherent, it's uncacheable if the device isn't cache
> coherent, reading from uncached memory is fairly slow.
>
> patch1 reuses the read out status to getting status field of rx_desc
> again.
>
> patch2 uses cacheable memory to store the rx buffer DMA address.
>
> We get the following performance data on Marvell BG4CT Platforms
> (tested with iperf):
>
> before the patch:
> recving 1GB in mvneta_rx_swbm() costs 149265960 ns

oops, I still didn't correct the typo here, it should be 1492659600 ns

Sorry, but I think there must be comments, I'll fix this typo in v3 when
address comments.

>
> after the patch:
> recving 1GB in mvneta_rx_swbm() costs 1421565640 ns
>
> We saved 4.76% time.
>
> RFC: can we do similar modification for tx? If yes, I can prepare a v2.
>
>
> Basically, these two patches do what Arnd mentioned in [1].
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> I added "Suggested-by you" tag, I hope you don't mind ;)
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg405889.html
>
> Since v1:
> - correct the performance data typo
>
> Jisheng Zhang (2):
> net: mvneta: avoid getting status from rx_desc as much as possible
> net: mvneta: Use cacheable memory to store the rx buffer DMA address
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>