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| author | Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com> | 2014-07-08 12:28:12 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-07-09 07:00:49 +0400 |
| commit | fbc6daf19745b372c0d909e5d74ab02e42b70e51 (patch) | |
| tree | 261af07430baed5f056fde747f73e9f9879bf02c /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c | |
| parent | 0b0302449110ca5ca4350458ed57b971fcb78ec1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fbc6daf19745b372c0d909e5d74ab02e42b70e51.tar.xz | |
net/mlx4_en: Ignore budget on TX napi polling
It is recommended that TX work not count against the quota.
The cost of TX packet liberation is a minute percentage of what it costs to
process an RX frame. Furthermore, that SKB freeing makes memory available for
other paths in the stack.
Give the TX a larger budget and be more aggressive about cleaning up the Tx
descriptors this budget could be changed using ethtool:
$ ethtool -C eth1 tx-frames-irq <budget>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c index fa1a069e14e6..68d763d2d030 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c @@ -417,6 +417,8 @@ static int mlx4_en_get_coalesce(struct net_device *dev, coal->tx_coalesce_usecs = priv->tx_usecs; coal->tx_max_coalesced_frames = priv->tx_frames; + coal->tx_max_coalesced_frames_irq = priv->tx_work_limit; + coal->rx_coalesce_usecs = priv->rx_usecs; coal->rx_max_coalesced_frames = priv->rx_frames; @@ -426,6 +428,7 @@ static int mlx4_en_get_coalesce(struct net_device *dev, coal->rx_coalesce_usecs_high = priv->rx_usecs_high; coal->rate_sample_interval = priv->sample_interval; coal->use_adaptive_rx_coalesce = priv->adaptive_rx_coal; + return 0; } @@ -434,6 +437,9 @@ static int mlx4_en_set_coalesce(struct net_device *dev, { struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev); + if (!coal->tx_max_coalesced_frames_irq) + return -EINVAL; + priv->rx_frames = (coal->rx_max_coalesced_frames == MLX4_EN_AUTO_CONF) ? MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TARGET : @@ -457,6 +463,7 @@ static int mlx4_en_set_coalesce(struct net_device *dev, priv->rx_usecs_high = coal->rx_coalesce_usecs_high; priv->sample_interval = coal->rate_sample_interval; priv->adaptive_rx_coal = coal->use_adaptive_rx_coalesce; + priv->tx_work_limit = coal->tx_max_coalesced_frames_irq; return mlx4_en_moderation_update(priv); } |