On 3/24/17 2:52 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
Hi Dave,
This series provides some preformancee optimizations for mlx5e
driver, especially for XDP TX flows.
1st patch is a simple change of rmb to dma_rmb in CQE fetch routine
which shows a huge gain for both RX and TX packet rates.
2nd patch removes write combining logic from the driver TX handler
and simplifies the TX logic while improving TX CPU utilization.
All other patches combined provide some refactoring to the driver TX
flows to allow some significant XDP TX improvements.
More details and performance numbers per patch can be found in each patch
commit message compared to the preceding patch.
Overall performance improvemnets
System: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Test case Baseline Now improvement
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TX packets (24 threads) 45Mpps 54Mpps 20%
TC stack Drop (1 core) 3.45Mpps 3.6Mpps 5%
XDP Drop (1 core) 14Mpps 16.9Mpps 20%
XDP TX (1 core) 10.4Mpps 13.7Mpps 31%
Excellent work!
All patches look great, so for the series:
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>
in patch 12 I noticed that inline_mode is being evaluated.
I think for xdp queues it's guaranteed to be fixed.
Can we optimize that path little bit more as well?
Thanks!
