Re: [PATCH net] net: mvneta: set real interrupt per packet for tx_done

[David Miller]

From: Marcin Wojtas 
Date: Wed,  6 Jul 2016 04:18:58 +0200

> From: Dmitri Epshtein 
> 
> Commit aebea2ba0f74 ("net: mvneta: fix Tx interrupt delay") intended to
> set coalescing threshold to a value guaranteeing interrupt generation
> per each sent packet, so that buffers can be released with no delay.
> 
> In fact setting threshold to '1' was wrong, because it causes interrupt
> every two packets. According to the documentation a reason behind it is
> following - interrupt occurs once sent buffers counter reaches a value,
> which is higher than one specified in MVNETA_TXQ_SIZE_REG(q). This
> behavior was confirmed during tests. Also when testing the SoC working
> as a NAS device, better performance was observed with int-per-packet,
> as it strongly depends on the fact that all transmitted packets are
> released immediately.
> 
> This commit enables NETA controller work in interrupt per sent packet mode
> by setting coalescing threshold to 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitri Epshtein 
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas 
> Cc:  # v3.10+
> Fixes aebea2ba0f74 ("net: mvneta: fix Tx interrupt delay")

Applied, thanks.

Re: [PATCH net] net: mvneta: set real interrupt per packet for tx_done

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 04:18:58AM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> From: Dmitri Epshtein 
> 
> Commit aebea2ba0f74 ("net: mvneta: fix Tx interrupt delay") intended to
> set coalescing threshold to a value guaranteeing interrupt generation
> per each sent packet, so that buffers can be released with no delay.
> 
> In fact setting threshold to '1' was wrong, because it causes interrupt
> every two packets. According to the documentation a reason behind it is
> following - interrupt occurs once sent buffers counter reaches a value,
> which is higher than one specified in MVNETA_TXQ_SIZE_REG(q). This
> behavior was confirmed during tests. Also when testing the SoC working
> as a NAS device, better performance was observed with int-per-packet,
> as it strongly depends on the fact that all transmitted packets are
> released immediately.
> 
> This commit enables NETA controller work in interrupt per sent packet mode
> by setting coalescing threshold to 0.

We had a discussion about this in January 2015 and I thought I sent a patch
to change it but I can't find it, so I think it was only proposed to some
users for testing. I also remember that on more recent kernels by then
(>=3.13) we observed a slightly better performance with this value set to
zero.

Acked-by: Willy Tarreau 

Willy