netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v5 7/7] net: ravb: Allocate RX buffers via page pool

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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 23:14:50 +0300
From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>, "David S. Miller"
	<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
CC: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>, Claudiu Beznea
	<claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>, Yoshihiro Shimoda
	<yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 7/7] net: ravb: Allocate RX buffers via page
 pool

On 6/4/24 10:28 AM, Paul Barker wrote:

> This patch makes multiple changes that can't be separated:
> 
>   1) Allocate plain RX buffers via a page pool instead of allocating
>      SKBs, then use build_skb() when a packet is received.
>   2) For GbEth IP, reduce the RX buffer size to 2kB.
>   3) For GbEth IP, merge packets which span more than one RX descriptor
>      as SKB fragments instead of copying data.
> 
> Implementing (1) without (2) would require the use of an order-1 page
> pool (instead of an order-0 page pool split into page fragments) for
> GbEth.
> 
> Implementing (2) without (3) would leave us no space to re-assemble
> packets which span more than one RX descriptor.
> 
> Implementing (3) without (1) would not be possible as the network stack
> expects to use put_page() or page_pool_put_page() to free SKB fragments
> after an SKB is consumed.
> 
> RX checksum offload support is adjusted to handle both linear and
> nonlinear (fragmented) packets.
> 
> This patch gives the following improvements during testing with iperf3.
> 
>   * RZ/G2L:
>     * TCP RX: same bandwidth at -43% CPU load (70% -> 40%)
>     * UDP RX: same bandwidth at -17% CPU load (88% -> 74%)
> 
>   * RZ/G2UL:
>     * TCP RX: +30% bandwidth (726Mbps -> 941Mbps)
>     * UDP RX: +417% bandwidth (108Mbps -> 558Mbps)
> 
>   * RZ/G3S:
>     * TCP RX: +64% bandwidth (562Mbps -> 920Mbps)
>     * UDP RX: +420% bandwidth (90Mbps -> 468Mbps)
> 
>   * RZ/Five:
>     * TCP RX: +217% bandwidth (145Mbps -> 459Mbps)
>     * UDP RX: +470% bandwidth (20Mbps -> 114Mbps)
> 
> There is no significant impact on bandwidth or CPU load in testing on
> RZ/G2H or R-Car M3N.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@...renesas.com>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>

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MBR, Sergey