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    lan743x: boost performance on cpu archs w/o dma cache snooping · a8db76d4
    Sven Van Asbroeck authored
    The buffers in the lan743x driver's receive ring are always 9K,
    even when the largest packet that can be received (the mtu) is
    much smaller. This performs particularly badly on cpu archs
    without dma cache snooping (such as ARM): each received packet
    results in a 9K dma_{map|unmap} operation, which is very expensive
    because cpu caches need to be invalidated.
    
    Careful measurement of the driver rx path on armv7 reveals that
    the cpu spends the majority of its time waiting for cache
    invalidation.
    
    Optimize by keeping the rx ring buffer size as close as possible
    to the mtu. This limits the amount of cache that requires
    invalidation.
    
    This optimization would normally force us to re-allocate all
    ring buffers when the mtu is changed - a disruptive event,
    because it can only happen when the network interface is down.
    
    Remove the need to re-allocate all ring buffers by adding support
    for multi-buffer frames. Now any combination of mtu and ring
    buffer size will work. When the mtu changes from mtu1 to mtu2,
    consumed buffers of size mtu1 are lazily replaced by newly
    allocated buffers of size mtu2.
    
    These optimizations double the rx performance on armv7.
    Third parties report 3x rx speedup on armv8.
    
    Tested with iperf3 on a freescale imx6qp + lan7430, both sides
    set to mtu 1500 bytes, measure rx performance:
    
    Before:
    [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
    [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec   550 MBytes   231 Mbits/sec    0
    After:
    [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
    [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.33 GBytes   570 Mbits/sec    0
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBryan Whitehead <Bryan.Whitehead@microchip.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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