Merge branch 'ibmvnic-performance-improvements-and-other-updates'
Thomas Falcon says: ==================== ibmvnic: Performance improvements and other updates The first three patches utilize a hypervisor call allowing multiple TX and RX buffer replenishment descriptors to be sent in one operation, which significantly reduces hypervisor call overhead. The xmit_more and Byte Queue Limit API's are leveraged to provide this support for TX descriptors. The subsequent two patches remove superfluous code and members in TX completion handling function and TX buffer structure, respectively, and remove unused routines. Finally, four patches which ensure that device queue memory is cache-line aligned, resolving slowdowns observed in PCI traces, as well as optimize the driver's NAPI polling function and to RX buffer replenishment are provided by Dwip Banerjee. This series provides significant performance improvements, allowing the driver to fully utilize 100Gb NIC's. ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1605748345-32062-1-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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