netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2: bnx2_tx

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Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	mchan@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: bnx2_tx_int() optimizations

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 08:48:02 +0200

> When using bnx2 in a high transmit load, bnx2_tx_int() cost is pretty high.
 ...
> This patch :
> 
> 1) avoids calling bnx2_get_hw_tx_cons(bnapi) too many times.
> 
> 2) makes bnx2_start_xmit() cache is_gso & nr_frags into sw_tx_bd descriptor.
>    This uses a litle bit more ram (256 longs per device on x86), but helps a lot.
> 
> 3) uses a prefetch(&skb->end) to speedup dev_kfree_skb(), bringing
>   cache line that will be needed in skb_release_data()
> 
> 
> result is 5 % bandwidth increase in benchmarks, involving UDP or TCP receive
>  & transmits, when a cpu is dedicated to ksoftirqd for bnx2.
> 
> bnx2_tx_int going from 3.33 % cpu to 0.5 % cpu in oprofile
> 
> Note : skb_dma_unmap() still very expensive but this is for another patch, 
> not related to bnx2 (2.9 % of cpu, while it does nothing on x86_32)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Looks great, I've applied this, thanks Eric!
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