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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2023 17:26:34 +0100
From:   Pawel Chmielewski <pawel.chmielewski@...el.com>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <intel-wired-lan@...osl.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/1] ice: add support BIG TCP on IPv6

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 05:53:00PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Pawel,
> 
> 
> Thank you for your patch.
> 
> Am 06.02.23 um 16:59 schrieb Pawel Chmielewski:
> > This change enables sending BIG TCP packets on IPv6 in the ice driver using
> > generic ipv6_hopopt_jumbo_remove helper for stripping HBH header.
> > 
> > Tested:
> > netperf -t TCP_RR -H 2001:db8:0:f101::1  -- -r80000,80000 -O MIN_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,THROUGHPUT
> > 
> > Results varied from one setup to another, but in every case we got lower
> > latencies and increased transactions rate.
> 
> Please give some concrete examples nevertheless.
Of course. I'll send v2 with the results. Thank you.

> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Pawel Chmielewski <pawel.chmielewski@...el.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h      | 2 ++
> >   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 2 ++
> >   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 3 +++
> >   3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
> > index 3d26ff4122e0..c774fdd482cd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h
> > @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@
> >   #define ICE_MAX_MTU	(ICE_AQ_SET_MAC_FRAME_SIZE_MAX - ICE_ETH_PKT_HDR_PAD)
> > +#define ICE_MAX_TSO_SIZE 131072
> > +
> >   #define ICE_UP_TABLE_TRANSLATE(val, i) \
> >   		(((val) << ICE_AQ_VSI_UP_TABLE_UP##i##_S) & \
> >   		  ICE_AQ_VSI_UP_TABLE_UP##i##_M)
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> > index 22b8ad058286..8c74a48ad0d3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> > @@ -3421,6 +3421,8 @@ static void ice_set_netdev_features(struct net_device *netdev)
> >   	 * be changed at runtime
> >   	 */
> >   	netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_RXFCS;
> > +
> > +	netif_set_tso_max_size(netdev, ICE_MAX_TSO_SIZE);
> >   }
> >   /**
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
> > index ccf09c957a1c..bef927afb766 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
> > @@ -2297,6 +2297,9 @@ ice_xmit_frame_ring(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring)
> >   	ice_trace(xmit_frame_ring, tx_ring, skb);
> > +	if (unlikely(ipv6_hopopt_jumbo_remove(skb)))
> > +		goto out_drop;
> > +
> >   	count = ice_xmit_desc_count(skb);
> >   	if (ice_chk_linearize(skb, count)) {
> >   		if (__skb_linearize(skb))