netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: hisilicon: Fix ping latency when deal with high throughput

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Date:   Sat, 26 Oct 2019 08:44:47 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jiangfeng Xiao <xiaojiangfeng@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        yisen.zhuang@...wei.com, salil.mehta@...wei.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        leeyou.li@...wei.com, zhanghan23@...wei.com, nixiaoming@...wei.com,
        zhangqiang.cn@...ilicon.com, dingjingcheng@...ilicon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: hisilicon: Fix ping latency when deal with high
 throughput

On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 16:49 +0800, Jiangfeng Xiao wrote:
> This is due to error in over budget processing.
> When dealing with high throughput, the used buffers
> that exceeds the budget is not cleaned up. In addition,
> it takes a lot of cycles to clean up the used buffer,
> and then the buffer where the valid data is located can take effect.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
[]
> @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ static int hip04_rx_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>  	struct hip04_priv *priv = container_of(napi, struct hip04_priv, napi);
>  	struct net_device *ndev = priv->ndev;
>  	struct net_device_stats *stats = &ndev->stats;
> -	unsigned int cnt = hip04_recv_cnt(priv);
> +	static unsigned int cnt_remaining;

static doesn't seem a great idea here as it's for just a single
driver instance.  Maybe make this part of struct hip04_priv?