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Message-ID: <56D55DAD.7060002@axis.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:15:25 +0100
From: Lars Persson <lars.persson@...s.com>
To: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <maxime.coquelin@...com>,
<rabinv@...s.com>, <larper@...s.com>,
Rayagond K <rayagond@...avyalabs.com>
CC: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
<fabrice.gasnier@...com>, Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] stmmac: enhance driver performances and update
the version
Hi Peppe
We look forward to seeing the patches for 4.10a support. I hope that we
can work together to have one driver supporting all chips with the 4.x
GMACs.
- Lars
On 02/29/2016 05:50 PM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:
> Gents
>
> on top of these patches, there is a new train to enhance the stmmac to
> support the DWMAC_4.x chips. They will be proposed very soon and on
> top of this update (as soon as reviewed and merged).
>
> In our context, it has been very useful working with the same driver
> that runs fine on several (x86, arm, sh4) boxes with different SYNP
> MAC/GMAC IPs (starting from MAC10/100 Database Release 1.5 to databook
> 3.70a and .... 4.00a and 4.10a). We got the benefit to have all the
> features already supported by stmmac plus the good performances
> available with TSO on gmac4.
>
> I can image no big issues to enhance the stmmac on supporting the
> new 4.00a and 4.10a although there is some other work made by
> Rabin and Larper.
>
> I guess, stmmac users will continue to be happy to continue to have the
> same d.d. working on their platforms with new gmac.
> But! it also makes sense to avoid to have two drivers that aim
> to do the same job. Or to get more synergy on the same code as
> done in the past with Rayagond for PTP and EEE.
>
> If you have some concern or advice, please do not hesitate to ask.
> We will try to send the patches soon to show the code in case of
> people are interested in.
>
> Kind Regards
> Peppe
>
> On 2/29/2016 2:27 PM, Alexandre TORGUE wrote:
>> According to Giuseppe, I send the v3 series.
>>
>> This is a subset of patches to rework the driver in order to improve its
>> performances and make it more robust under stress conditions.
>>
>> All patches have been ported on STi mainstream kernel branch and
>> tested on ARM STiH4xx platforms and newer ones.
>>
>> This series also updates the driver version and prepares it
>> to include further development to support new chips.
>>
>> In detail, these patches are:
>>
>> o to rework and improve the internal DMA bus settings
>>
>> Fine tuning is mandatory on some platforms for both
>> performance and stability issues.
>>
>> o to rework and optimize the descriptor management.
>>
>> This will help a lot on performance side and preparing
>> the inclusion on the GMAC4.x.
>>
>> o to add a set of optimizations for both xmit and rx functions.
>>
>> These will help a lot on performance side and making the driver
>> more robust in case of low memory conditions and under some
>> stress test, performed for example on IP-STB.
>>
>> Below some throughput figures obtained on some boxes before and after
>> the patches.
>>
>> nuttcp (mbps) iperf (Mbps)
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> tcp udp tcp udp
>> tx rx tx rx tx rx tx rx
>> ------------------------------------------
>> old 680 800 480 506 760 800 600 700
>> new 830 880 540 630 840 880 700 800
>>
>> ==============================================================================
>>
>>
>> V2: - rx_copybreak is now managed by using ethtool.
>> V3: - improve comments on PCIe detailing that there are no regressions
>> - rework some APIs to properly define some params as bool as
>> expected
>> - rework the formula to get the element inside the ring.
>> Comparing V2,
>> patches 4 and 13 have been merged because the same formula have been
>> used. After this rework, no evident benefit has been noticed in terms
>> of performances so the table above is still valid. Disassembling the
>> code for SH4 and ARM, with the new formula just an instr is saved
>> (depending on compiler flags) and this gives us not so relevanti
>> gain,
>> for example, on SH4 where some instr are executed in the same
>> pipeline
>> stage.
>> Ring sizes are now fixed and maybe they can be reworked to be tuned
>> w/o using stmmaceth= cmdline option. Indeed, nobody change these
>> sizes
>> and indeed the numbers selected by default respect the budget and
>> avoid to pass invalid setup. These are the best driver default sizes
>> for ring and chain.
>>
>> ==============================================================================
>>
>> Fabrice Gasnier (3):
>> stmmac: merge get_rx_owner into rx_status routine.
>> stmmac: optimize tx clean function
>> stmmac: fix phy init when attached to a phy
>>
>> Giuseppe Cavallaro (14):
>> stmmac: share reset function between dwmac100 and dwmac1000
>> stmmac: rework DMA bus setting and introduce new platform AXI
>> structure
>> stmmac: change descriptor layout
>> stmmac: review RX/TX ring management
>> stmmac: add length field to dma data
>> stmmac: add last_segment field to dma data
>> stmmac: add is_jumbo field to dma data
>> stmmac: optimize tx desc management
>> stmmac: set dirty index out of the loop
>> stmmac: first frame prep at the end of xmit routine
>> stmmac: do not poll phy handler when attach a switch
>> stmmac: do not perform zero-copy for rx frames
>> stmmac: tune rx copy via threshold.
>> stmmac: update version to Oct_2015
>>
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/stmmac.txt | 54 ++-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/chain_mode.c | 37 +-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h | 39 +-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/descs.h | 330 +++++++-------
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/descs_com.h | 77 ++--
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac100.h | 1 -
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000.h | 3 +-
>> .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_dma.c | 111 +++--
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac100_dma.c | 22 +-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac_dma.h | 39 +-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac_lib.c | 21 +
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c | 226 +++++-----
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c | 150 ++++---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/ring_mode.c | 32 +-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h | 9 +-
>> .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c | 41 +-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 473
>> ++++++++++++---------
>> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_pci.c | 4 +-
>> .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c | 42 +-
>> include/linux/stmmac.h | 17 +-
>> 20 files changed, 1016 insertions(+), 712 deletions(-)
>>
>
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