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    net: ravb: Allocate RX buffers via page pool · 96672632
    Paul Barker authored
    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: default avatarPaul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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