[PATCH 3/5] uio_hv_generic: increase size of receive and send buffers

From: kys
Date: Fri Aug 10 2018 - 19:07:17 EST


From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

When using DPDK there is significant performance boost by using
the largest possible send and receive buffer area.

Unfortunately, with UIO model there is not a good way to configure
this at run time. But it is okay to have a bigger buffer available
even if application only decides to use a smaller piece of it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c b/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c
index c690d100adcd..35678d08d9d8 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@

#include "../hv/hyperv_vmbus.h"

-#define DRIVER_VERSION "0.02.0"
+#define DRIVER_VERSION "0.02.1"
#define DRIVER_AUTHOR "Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>"
#define DRIVER_DESC "Generic UIO driver for VMBus devices"

#define HV_RING_SIZE 512 /* pages */
-#define SEND_BUFFER_SIZE (15 * 1024 * 1024)
-#define RECV_BUFFER_SIZE (15 * 1024 * 1024)
+#define SEND_BUFFER_SIZE (16 * 1024 * 1024)
+#define RECV_BUFFER_SIZE (31 * 1024 * 1024)

/*
* List of resources to be mapped to user space
--
2.18.0