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authorAlexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>2021-11-23 20:18:35 +0300
committerTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>2021-12-28 20:42:33 +0300
commitef687d61e0e999575c8d781e1edd04b4a388440f (patch)
tree19ac59a2f2adab747e94858cd05624d330b45912
parent6e19cf7d3815c009bfd213832a6feac4bafc37ae (diff)
downloadlinux-ef687d61e0e999575c8d781e1edd04b4a388440f.tar.xz
iavf: switch to napi_build_skb()
napi_build_skb() reuses per-cpu NAPI skbuff_head cache in order to save some cycles on freeing/allocating skbuff_heads on every new Rx or completed Tx. iavf driver runs Tx completion polling cycle right before the Rx one and uses napi_consume_skb() to feed the cache with skbuff_heads of completed entries, so it's never empty and always warm at that moment. Switch to the napi_build_skb() to relax mm pressure on heavy Rx. Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Konrad Jankowski <konrad0.jankowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
index a0b1c18a3273..8cbe7ad1347c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *iavf_build_skb(struct iavf_ring *rx_ring,
net_prefetch(va);
/* build an skb around the page buffer */
- skb = build_skb(va - IAVF_SKB_PAD, truesize);
+ skb = napi_build_skb(va - IAVF_SKB_PAD, truesize);
if (unlikely(!skb))
return NULL;