Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ti: icssg_prueth: Add SW TX / RX Coalescing based on hrtimers

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Apr 29 2024 - 08:50:27 EST


On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 12:45:01PM +0530, MD Danish Anwar wrote:
> Add SW IRQ coalescing based on hrtimers for RX and TX data path for ICSSG
> driver, which can be enabled by ethtool commands:
>
> - RX coalescing
> ethtool -C eth1 rx-usecs 50
>
> - TX coalescing can be enabled per TX queue
>
> - by default enables coalesing for TX0
> ethtool -C eth1 tx-usecs 50
> - configure TX0
> ethtool -Q eth0 queue_mask 1 --coalesce tx-usecs 100
> - configure TX1
> ethtool -Q eth0 queue_mask 2 --coalesce tx-usecs 100
> - configure TX0 and TX1
> ethtool -Q eth0 queue_mask 3 --coalesce tx-usecs 100 --coalesce
> tx-usecs 100
>
> Minimum value for both rx-usecs and tx-usecs is 20us.
>
> Compared to gro_flush_timeout and napi_defer_hard_irqs this patch allows
> to enable IRQ coalescing for RX path separately.
>
> Benchmarking numbers:
> ===============================================================
> | Method | Tput_TX | CPU_TX | Tput_RX | CPU_RX |
> | ==============================================================
> | Default Driver 943 Mbps 31% 517 Mbps 38% |
> | IRQ Coalescing (Patch) 943 Mbps 28% 518 Mbps 25% |
> ===============================================================
>
> Signed-off-by: MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@xxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew