netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: stmmac: add BQL support

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Message-ID: <20141228214059.GA25570@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:48:35 +0100
From:	Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@...il.com>
To:	Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>
Cc:	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: stmmac: add BQL support

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 08:25:40AM -0800, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@...il.com> wrote:
> > Add support for Byte Queue Limits to the STMicro MAC driver.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> > Tested on a Amlogic S805 Cortex-A5 board, where the use of BQL
> > slightly decreases the ping latency from ~10ms to ~3ms when the
> > 100Mbps link is saturated by TCP streams. No difference is
> > observed at 1Gbps.
> 
> I see the plural. With TSQ in place it is hard (without something like
> the rrul test driving multiple streams) to drive a driver to
> saturation with small numbers of flows. This was with pfifo_fast, not
> sch_fq, at 100mbit?

Hi Dave,

yes, this was with pfifo_fast and I used 4 iperf TCP streams. The total
throughput didn't seem to increase adding more streams.

> 
> Can this board actually drive a full gigabit in the first place? Until
> now most of the low end arm boards I have seen only came with
> a 100mbit mac, and the gig ones lacking offloads seemed to peak
> out at about 600mbit.

I measured a throughput of 650mbit in rx and 600mbit in tx.

> 
> Under my christmas tree landed a quad core A5 (odroid-c1), also an
> xgene and zedboard - both of the latter are a-needing BQL,
> and I haven't booted the udroid yet. Hopefully it is the
> same driver you just improved.

I'm using the odroid-c1 too, with this tree based on the recent
Amlogic mainline work:

  https://github.com/bengal/linux/tree/meson8b

Unfortunately at the moment the support for the board is very basic
(for example, SMP is not working yet) but it's enough to do some NIC
tests.

Beniamino
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