[patch 1/2] s390: lcs performance enhancements

From: Frank Pavlic
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 10:59:59 EST


[patch 1/2] s390: lcs performance enhancements

From: Klaus Wacker <kdwacker@xxxxxxxxxx>
- When flood pinging (with large packet size) an LCS device,
about 90 % of all packets are dropped by driver.
- increased number of lcs IO buffers to 32.
- use netif_stop_queue/netif_wake_queue in lcs_start_xmit routine
- don't lock the whole xmit routine but just the piece of code where
tx_buffer is touched.

Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@xxxxxxxxxx>

diffstat:
lcs.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++--------------
lcs.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff -Naupr git-orig/drivers/s390/net/lcs.c git-patched/drivers/s390/net/lcs.c
--- git-orig/drivers/s390/net/lcs.c 2006-02-07 10:55:28.000000000 +0100
+++ git-patched/drivers/s390/net/lcs.c 2006-02-07 11:06:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ lcs_register_debug_facility(void)
return -ENOMEM;
}
debug_register_view(lcs_dbf_setup, &debug_hex_ascii_view);
- debug_set_level(lcs_dbf_setup, 4);
+ debug_set_level(lcs_dbf_setup, 2);
debug_register_view(lcs_dbf_trace, &debug_hex_ascii_view);
- debug_set_level(lcs_dbf_trace, 4);
+ debug_set_level(lcs_dbf_trace, 2);
return 0;
}

@@ -1292,9 +1292,8 @@ lcs_set_multicast_list(struct net_device
LCS_DBF_TEXT(4, trace, "setmulti");
card = (struct lcs_card *) dev->priv;

- if (!lcs_set_thread_start_bit(card, LCS_SET_MC_THREAD)) {
+ if (!lcs_set_thread_start_bit(card, LCS_SET_MC_THREAD))
schedule_work(&card->kernel_thread_starter);
- }
}

#endif /* CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST */
@@ -1459,6 +1458,8 @@ lcs_txbuffer_cb(struct lcs_channel *chan
lcs_release_buffer(channel, buffer);
card = (struct lcs_card *)
((char *) channel - offsetof(struct lcs_card, write));
+ if (netif_queue_stopped(card->dev))
+ netif_wake_queue(card->dev);
spin_lock(&card->lock);
card->tx_emitted--;
if (card->tx_emitted <= 0 && card->tx_buffer != NULL)
@@ -1478,6 +1479,7 @@ __lcs_start_xmit(struct lcs_card *card,
struct net_device *dev)
{
struct lcs_header *header;
+ int rc = 0;

LCS_DBF_TEXT(5, trace, "hardxmit");
if (skb == NULL) {
@@ -1492,10 +1494,8 @@ __lcs_start_xmit(struct lcs_card *card,
card->stats.tx_carrier_errors++;
return 0;
}
- if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) ) {
- card->stats.tx_dropped++;
- return -EBUSY;
- }
+ netif_stop_queue(card->dev);
+ spin_lock(&card->lock);
if (card->tx_buffer != NULL &&
card->tx_buffer->count + sizeof(struct lcs_header) +
skb->len + sizeof(u16) > LCS_IOBUFFERSIZE)
@@ -1506,7 +1506,8 @@ __lcs_start_xmit(struct lcs_card *card,
card->tx_buffer = lcs_get_buffer(&card->write);
if (card->tx_buffer == NULL) {
card->stats.tx_dropped++;
- return -EBUSY;
+ rc = -EBUSY;
+ goto out;
}
card->tx_buffer->callback = lcs_txbuffer_cb;
card->tx_buffer->count = 0;
@@ -1518,13 +1519,18 @@ __lcs_start_xmit(struct lcs_card *card,
header->type = card->lan_type;
header->slot = card->portno;
memcpy(header + 1, skb->data, skb->len);
+ spin_unlock(&card->lock);
card->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
card->stats.tx_packets++;
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
- if (card->tx_emitted <= 0)
+ netif_wake_queue(card->dev);
+ spin_lock(&card->lock);
+ if (card->tx_emitted <= 0 && card->tx_buffer != NULL)
/* If this is the first tx buffer emit it immediately. */
__lcs_emit_txbuffer(card);
- return 0;
+out:
+ spin_unlock(&card->lock);
+ return rc;
}

static int
@@ -1535,9 +1541,7 @@ lcs_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, stru

LCS_DBF_TEXT(5, trace, "pktxmit");
card = (struct lcs_card *) dev->priv;
- spin_lock(&card->lock);
rc = __lcs_start_xmit(card, skb, dev);
- spin_unlock(&card->lock);
return rc;
}

@@ -2319,7 +2323,6 @@ __init lcs_init_module(void)
PRINT_ERR("Initialization failed\n");
return rc;
}
-
return 0;
}

diff -Naupr git-orig/drivers/s390/net/lcs.h git-patched/drivers/s390/net/lcs.h
--- git-orig/drivers/s390/net/lcs.h 2006-02-07 10:55:28.000000000 +0100
+++ git-patched/drivers/s390/net/lcs.h 2006-02-07 11:00:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ do {
*/
#define LCS_ILLEGAL_OFFSET 0xffff
#define LCS_IOBUFFERSIZE 0x5000
-#define LCS_NUM_BUFFS 8 /* needs to be power of 2 */
+#define LCS_NUM_BUFFS 32 /* needs to be power of 2 */
#define LCS_MAC_LENGTH 6
#define LCS_INVALID_PORT_NO -1
#define LCS_LANCMD_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT 5
-
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