[net-next RFC v3 5/7] net: ravb: Enable SW IRQ Coalescing for GbEth

[Paul Barker]

Software IRQ Coalescing is required to improve network stack performance
in the RZ/G2L SoC family and the RZ/G3S SoC, i.e. the SoCs which use the
GbEth IP.

This patch gives the following improvements during testing with iperf3:

  * RZ/G2L:
    * TCP RX: same bandwidth with -6% CPU load (76% -> 71%)
    * UDP RX: same bandwidth with -10% CPU load (99% -> 89%)

  * RZ/G2UL:
    * UDP RX: +4200% bandwidth (1.23Mbps -> 53Mbps)

  * RZ/G3S:
    * UDP RX: +425% bandwidth (1.23Mbps -> 6.46Mbps)

The improvement of UDP RX bandwidth for the single core SoCs (RZ/G2UL &
RZ/G3S) is particularly critical.

Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h      | 1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
index 71de2a7aa27c..9c6392ade2f1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
@@ -1054,6 +1054,7 @@ struct ravb_hw_info {
 	u32 rx_max_desc_use;
 	u32 rx_desc_size;
 	unsigned aligned_tx: 1;
+	unsigned needs_irq_coalesce:1;	/* Needs software IRQ coalescing */
 
 	/* hardware features */
 	unsigned internal_delay:1;	/* AVB-DMAC has internal delays */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
index 12618171f6d5..26b70b996bd3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
@@ -2663,6 +2663,7 @@ static const struct ravb_hw_info gbeth_hw_info = {
 	.tx_counters = 1,
 	.carrier_counters = 1,
 	.half_duplex = 1,
+	.needs_irq_coalesce = 1,
 };
 
 static const struct of_device_id ravb_match_table[] = {
@@ -2937,6 +2938,9 @@ static int ravb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (info->nc_queues)
 		netif_napi_add(ndev, &priv->napi[RAVB_NC], ravb_poll);
 
+	if (info->needs_irq_coalesce)
+		netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on(ndev);
+
 	/* Network device register */
 	error = register_netdev(ndev);
 	if (error)
-- 
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