netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 9/9] mlx4: add page recycling in receive path

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 18:20:12 +0200
From:   Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 9/9] mlx4: add page recycling in receive path



On 07/02/2017 5:02 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Same technique than some Intel drivers, for arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096
>
> In most cases, pages are reused because they were consumed
> before we could loop around the RX ring.
This might not be true when multiple streams are handled in the same ring.
As the process time in stack will be longer.
We will test this scenario as well.
>
> This brings back performance, and is even better,
> a single TCP flow reaches 30Gbit on my hosts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c   | 238 ++++++++-------------------
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h |   1 -
>   2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)
>
>