Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] net: ocelot: add jumbo frame support for FDMA

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Wed Nov 03 2021 - 08:43:31 EST


On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 10:19:43AM +0100, Clément Léger wrote:
> When using the FDMA, using jumbo frames can lead to a large performance
> improvement. When changing the MTU, the RX buffer size must be
> increased to be large enough to receive jumbo frame. Since the FDMA is
> shared amongst all interfaces, all the ports must be down before
> changing the MTU. Buffers are sized to accept the maximum MTU supported
> by each port.
>
> Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <clement.leger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Instead of draining buffers and refilling with a different size, which
impacts the user experience, can you not just use scatter/gather RX
processing for frames larger than the fixed buffer size, like a normal
driver would?

> drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.h | 1 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c | 7 +++
> 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.c
> index d8cdf022bbee..bee1a310caa6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.c
> @@ -530,6 +530,67 @@ static void fdma_free_skbs_list(struct ocelot_fdma *fdma,
> }
> }
>
> +int ocelot_fdma_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
> +{
> + struct ocelot_port_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> + struct ocelot_port *port = &priv->port;
> + struct ocelot *ocelot = port->ocelot;
> + struct ocelot_fdma *fdma = ocelot->fdma;
> + struct ocelot_fdma_dcb *dcb, *dcb_temp;
> + struct list_head tmp = LIST_HEAD_INIT(tmp);
> + size_t old_rx_buf_size = fdma->rx_buf_size;
> + bool all_ports_down = true;
> + u8 port_num;
> +
> + /* The FDMA RX list is shared amongst all the port, get the max MTU from
> + * all of them
> + */
> + for (port_num = 0; port_num < ocelot->num_phys_ports; port_num++) {
> + port = ocelot->ports[port_num];
> + if (!port)
> + continue;
> +
> + priv = container_of(port, struct ocelot_port_private, port);
> +
> + if (READ_ONCE(priv->dev->mtu) > new_mtu)
> + new_mtu = READ_ONCE(priv->dev->mtu);
> +
> + /* All ports must be down to change the RX buffer length */
> + if (netif_running(priv->dev))
> + all_ports_down = false;
> + }
> +
> + fdma->rx_buf_size = fdma_rx_compute_buffer_size(new_mtu);
> + if (fdma->rx_buf_size == old_rx_buf_size)
> + return 0;
> +
> + if (!all_ports_down)
> + return -EBUSY;
> +
> + priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> +
> + fdma_stop_channel(fdma, MSCC_FDMA_INJ_CHAN);
> +
> + /* Discard all pending RX software and hardware descriptor */
> + fdma_free_skbs_list(fdma, &fdma->rx_hw, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> + fdma_free_skbs_list(fdma, &fdma->rx_sw, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> +
> + /* Move all DCBs to a temporary list that will be injected in sw list */
> + if (!list_empty(&fdma->rx_hw))
> + list_splice_tail_init(&fdma->rx_hw, &tmp);
> + if (!list_empty(&fdma->rx_sw))
> + list_splice_tail_init(&fdma->rx_sw, &tmp);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(dcb, dcb_temp, &tmp, node) {
> + list_del(&dcb->node);
> + ocelot_fdma_rx_add_dcb_sw(fdma, dcb);
> + }
> +
> + ocelot_fdma_rx_refill(fdma);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static int fdma_init_tx(struct ocelot_fdma *fdma)
> {
> int i;
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.h
> index 6c5c5872abf5..74514a0b291a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_fdma.h
> @@ -55,5 +55,6 @@ int ocelot_fdma_start(struct ocelot_fdma *fdma);
> int ocelot_fdma_stop(struct ocelot_fdma *fdma);
> int ocelot_fdma_inject_frame(struct ocelot_fdma *fdma, int port, u32 rew_op,
> struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
> +int ocelot_fdma_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu);
>
> #endif
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c
> index 3971b810c5b4..d5e88d7b15c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_net.c
> @@ -492,6 +492,13 @@ static int ocelot_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
> struct ocelot_port_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> struct ocelot_port *ocelot_port = &priv->port;
> struct ocelot *ocelot = ocelot_port->ocelot;
> + int ret;
> +
> + if (ocelot->fdma) {
> + ret = ocelot_fdma_change_mtu(dev, new_mtu);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
>
> ocelot_port_set_maxlen(ocelot, priv->chip_port, new_mtu);
> WRITE_ONCE(dev->mtu, new_mtu);
> --
> 2.33.0
>