Re: [PATCH 0/5] net: mvneta: some bug fix and trivial improvement

[Jisheng Zhang]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:40:24 +0800 Jisheng Zhang wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:25:57 +0800
> Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> 
> > patch1 fixes rx_offset_correction set and usage. Because the
> > rx_offset_correction is RX packet offset correction for platforms,
> > it's not related with SW BM, instead, it's only related with the
> > platform's NET_SKB_PAD.
> > 
> > patch2 fixes the wrong function to unmap rx buf  
> 
> I have question about the following two commits:
> 
> 7e47fd84b56b ("net: mvneta: Allocate page for the descriptor"), it cause
> a waste, for normal 1500 MTU, before this patch we allocate 1920Bytes for rx
> after this patch, we always allocate PAGE_SIZE bytes, if PAGE_SIZE=4096, we
> waste 53% memory for each rx buf. I'm not sure whether the performance
> improvement deserve the pay.
> 
> 562e2f467e71 ("net: mvneta: Improve the buffer allocation method for SWBM")
> mentions that "With system having a small memory (around 256MB), the state
> "cannot allocate memory to refill with new buffer" is reach pretty quickly"
> is it due to the memory waste as said above? Anyway, by this commit, we
> want to improve the situation on a small memory system, so should we firstly
> revert commit 7e47fd84b56b ("net: mvneta: Allocate page for the descriptor")?
> 

If maintainers decide to revert the two commits: 7e47fd84b56b and 562e2f467e71
then, patch1,2,3 are useless, we can drop them. Only patch4 and patch5 are
still useful.

Thanks

> Any comments are welcome!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> > 
> > patch3 removes the NETIF_F_GRO check ourself, because the net subsystem
> > will handle it for us.
> > 
> > patch4 enables NETIF_F_RXCSUM by default, since the driver and HW
> > supports the feature.
> > 
> > patch5 is a trivial optimization, to reduce smp_processor_id() calling
> > in mvneta_tx_done_gbe.
> > 
> > Jisheng Zhang (5):
> >   net: mvneta: fix rx_offset_correction set and usage
> >   net: mvneta: fix the wrong function to unmap rx buf
> >   net: mvneta: Don't check NETIF_F_GRO ourself
> >   net: mvneta: enable NETIF_F_RXCSUM by default
> >   net: mvneta: reduce smp_processor_id() calling in mvneta_tx_done_gbe
> > 
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 49 ++++++++++++---------------
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> >   
>