linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.10 34/62] net/mlx5e: Fix small packet threshold

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Date:   Mon,  1 May 2017 14:34:47 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.10 34/62] net/mlx5e: Fix small packet threshold

4.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>

[ Upstream commit cbad8cddb6ed7ef3a5f0a9a70f1711d4d7fb9a8f ]

RX packet headers are meant to be contained in SKB linear part,
and chose a threshold of 128.
It turns out this is not enough, i.e. for IPv6 packet over VxLAN.
In this case, UDP/IPv4 needs 42 bytes, GENEVE header is 8 bytes,
and 86 bytes for TCP/IPv6. In total 136 bytes that is more than
current 128 bytes. In this case expand header flow is reached.
The warning in skb_try_coalesce() caused by a wrong truesize
was already fixed here:
commit 158f323b9868 ("net: adjust skb->truesize in pskb_expand_head()").
Still, we prefer to totally avoid the expand header flow for performance reasons.
Tested regular TCP_STREAM with iperf for 1 and 8 streams, no degradation was found.

Fixes: 461017cb006a ("net/mlx5e: Support RX multi-packet WQE (Striding RQ)")
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 #define MLX5E_VALID_NUM_MTTS(num_mtts) (MLX5_MTT_OCTW(num_mtts) - 1 <= U16_MAX)

 #define MLX5_UMR_ALIGN				(2048)
-#define MLX5_MPWRQ_SMALL_PACKET_THRESHOLD	(128)
+#define MLX5_MPWRQ_SMALL_PACKET_THRESHOLD	(256)

 #define MLX5E_PARAMS_DEFAULT_LRO_WQE_SZ                 (64 * 1024)
 #define MLX5E_DEFAULT_LRO_TIMEOUT                       32