Re: [PATCH net-next v3] octeontx2-pf: Add support for page pool

From: Simon Horman
Date: Fri May 19 2023 - 06:02:59 EST


On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 12:43:52PM +0530, Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:
> Page pool for each rx queue enhance rx side performance
> by reclaiming buffers back to each queue specific pool. DMA
> mapping is done only for first allocation of buffers.
> As subsequent buffers allocation avoid DMA mapping,
> it results in performance improvement.
>
> Image | Performance
> ------------ | ------------
> Vannila | 3Mpps
> |
> with this | 42Mpps
> change |
> ---------------------------
>
> Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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> @@ -1205,10 +1226,28 @@ void otx2_sq_free_sqbs(struct otx2_nic *pfvf)
> }
> }
>
> +void otx2_free_bufs(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct otx2_pool *pool,
> + u64 iova, int size)
> +{
> + u64 pa = otx2_iova_to_phys(pfvf->iommu_domain, iova);
> + struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(phys_to_virt(pa));

nit: please arrange local variables in networking code in reverse xmas tree
order - longest line to shortest.

u64 pa = otx2_iova_to_phys(pfvf->iommu_domain, iova);
struct page *page;

page = virt_to_head_page(phys_to_virt(pa));

The following tool can check this:

https://github.com/ecree-solarflare/xmastree

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> @@ -1186,11 +1185,13 @@ bool otx2_sq_append_skb(struct net_device *netdev, struct otx2_snd_queue *sq,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(otx2_sq_append_skb);
>
> -void otx2_cleanup_rx_cqes(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct otx2_cq_queue *cq)
> +void otx2_cleanup_rx_cqes(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct otx2_cq_queue *cq, int qidx)
> {
> struct nix_cqe_rx_s *cqe;
> int processed_cqe = 0;
> - u64 iova, pa;
> + struct otx2_pool *pool;
> + u16 pool_id;
> + u64 iova;

Likewise here.

>
> if (pfvf->xdp_prog)
> xdp_rxq_info_unreg(&cq->xdp_rxq);

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