linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox
Tariq Toukan 4415a0319f net/mlx5e: Implement RX mapped page cache for page recycle
Instead of reallocating and mapping pages for RX data-path,
recycle already used pages in a per ring cache.

Performance tests:
The following results were measured on a freshly booted system,
giving optimal baseline performance, as high-order pages are yet to
be fragmented and depleted.

We ran pktgen single-stream benchmarks, with iptables-raw-drop:

Single stride, 64 bytes:
* 4,739,057 - baseline
* 4,749,550 - order0 no cache
* 4,786,899 - order0 with cache
1% gain

Larger packets, no page cross, 1024 bytes:
* 3,982,361 - baseline
* 3,845,682 - order0 no cache
* 4,127,852 - order0 with cache
3.7% gain

Larger packets, every 3rd packet crosses a page, 1500 bytes:
* 3,731,189 - baseline
* 3,579,414 - order0 no cache
* 3,931,708 - order0 with cache
5.4% gain

Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-17 09:51:40 -04:00
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mlx4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-09-12 15:52:44 -07:00
mlx5/core net/mlx5e: Implement RX mapped page cache for page recycle 2016-09-17 09:51:40 -04:00
mlxsw mlxsw: spectrum: Add support for new ethtool API 2016-09-13 12:16:34 -04:00
Kconfig mlxsw: Introduce Mellanox switch driver core 2015-07-30 00:04:59 -07:00
Makefile mlxsw: Introduce Mellanox switch driver core 2015-07-30 00:04:59 -07:00