netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next] net: fec: allow "mini jumbo" frames

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Date:   Sat, 10 Dec 2016 11:55:11 -0500
From:   Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
To:     Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com>,
        Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@...ndarydevices.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Eric Nelson <eric@...int.com>,
        Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@...il.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next] net: fec: allow "mini jumbo" frames

Hi Nikita,

Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com> writes:

> This adds support for MTU slightly larger than default, on modern
> FEC flavours.
>
> Currently FEC driver uses single hardware Rx buffer per frame. On most
> FEC flavours, size of single buffer is limited by 11-bit field, and
> has to be multiple of 64 (in the worst case). Thus maximum usable Rx
> buffer size is 1984 bytes.
>
> Of those:
> - 2 bytes are used for IP header alignment,
> - 14 bytes are used by ethhdr,
> - up to 8 bytes are needed for VLAN and/or DSA tags,
> - 4 bytes are needed for CRC.
>
> Thus maximum MTU possible within current RX architecture is 1956.
>
> This patch allows exactly that. For further increase, Rx architecture
> change is needed.
>
> Use of MTU=1956 gives about 1.5% throughput improvement between two Vybrid
> boards, compared to default MTU=1500.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com>

For what it's worth, I have tested your patch on my ZII Rev B boards
(see vf610-zii-dev-rev-b.dts) which have a FEC as the master net device
of their DSA trees. They still work as expected.

Tested-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>

Thanks,

        Vivien