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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/mlx4_en.h | |
| 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/mlx4_en.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h index 624e1939e9ee..d72a5a894fc6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h @@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ enum { #define MAX_TX_RINGS (MLX4_EN_MAX_TX_RING_P_UP * \ MLX4_EN_NUM_UP) +#define MLX4_EN_DEFAULT_TX_WORK 256 + /* Target number of packets to coalesce with interrupt moderation */ #define MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TARGET 44 #define MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TIME 0x10 @@ -543,6 +545,7 @@ struct mlx4_en_priv { __be32 ctrl_flags; u32 flags; u8 num_tx_rings_p_up; + u32 tx_work_limit; u32 tx_ring_num; u32 rx_ring_num; u32 rx_skb_size; |