Commit 65c482bc authored by Paul Barker's avatar Paul Barker Committed by Paolo Abeni

net: ravb: Use NAPI threaded mode on 1-core CPUs with GbEth IP

NAPI Threaded mode (along with the previously enabled SW IRQ Coalescing)
is required to improve network stack performance for single core SoCs
using the GbEth IP (currently the RZ/G2L SoC family and the RZ/G3S SoC).

This patch gives the following improvements during testing with iperf3.

  * RZ/G2UL:
    * TCP TX: +32% bandwidth (638Mbps -> 841Mbps)
    * TXP RX: +8.8% bandwidth (667Mbps -> 726Mbps)
    * UDP RX: +104% bandwidth (53Mbps -> 108Mbps)

  * RZ/G3S:
    * TCP TX: 29% bandwidth (529Mbps -> 681Mbps)
    * UDP RX: +1290% bandwidth (6.46Mbps -> 90Mbps)

  * RZ/Five:
    * UDP RX: Test no longer crashes (0 -> 20 Mbps)

This patch gives the following reductions in performance in the same
testing:

  * RZ/G2UL:
    * UDP TX: -7.5% bandwidth (594Mbps -> 549Mbps)

  * RZ/G3S:
    * UDP TX: -5% bandwidth (625Mbps -> 594Mbps)

These losses are considered acceptable given the benefits shown above.
If UDP TX bandwidth must be maximised for a particular use case, NAPI
threaded mode can be disabled at runtime via sysfs writes.

The improvement of UDP RX bandwidth for the single core SoCs (RZ/G2UL &
RZ/G3S) is particularly critical.
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>
parent 7b39c181
......@@ -2944,8 +2944,11 @@ static int ravb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (info->nc_queues)
netif_napi_add(ndev, &priv->napi[RAVB_NC], ravb_poll);
if (info->coalesce_irqs)
if (info->coalesce_irqs) {
netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on(ndev);
if (num_present_cpus() == 1)
dev_set_threaded(ndev, true);
}
/* Network device register */
error = register_netdev(ndev);
......
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