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Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        antoine.tenart@...tlin.com, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
        gregory.clement@...tlin.com, miquel.raynal@...tlin.com,
        nadavh@...vell.com, stefanc@...vell.com, ymarkman@...vell.com,
        mw@...ihalf.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] net: mvpp2: add RSS support

From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:54:09 +0200

> This series adds support for RSS on PPv2. There already was some code to
> handle the RSS tables, but the driver was missing all the classification
> steps required to actually use these tables.
> 
> RSS is used through the classifier, using at least 2 lookups :
>  - One using the C2 engine, a TCAM engine that match the packet based on
>    some header extracted fields, assigns the default rx queue for that
>    packet and tag it for RSS
>  - One using the C3Hx engine, which computes the hash that's used to perform
>    the lookup in the RSS table.
> 
> Since RSS spreads the load across CPUs, we need to make sure that packets
> from the same flow are always assigned the same rx queue, to prevent
> re-ordering.
> 
> This series therefore adds a classification step based on the Header Parser,
> that separate ingress traffic into 52 flows, based on some L2, L3 and L4
> parameters.
> 
> Patches 1 and 2 fix some header issues, from the driver splitting
> 
> Patches 3 to 7 make sure the correct receive queue setup is used for RSS
> 
> Patches 8 to 14 deal with the way we handle the RSS tables
> 
> Patch 15 implement basic classifier configuration, by using it to assign the
> default receive queue
> 
> Patch 16 implement the ingress traffic splitting into multiple flows
> 
> Patch 17 adds RSS support, by using the needed classification steps
> 
> Patch 18 adds the required ethtool ops to configure the flow hash parameters
> 
> This was tested on MacchiatoBin, giving some nice performance improvements
> using ip forwarding (going from 5Gbps to 9.6Gbps total throughput).
> 
> RSS is disabled by default.

Series applied, thank you.