Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] can: m_can: Optimizations for m_can/tcan part 2

[Markus Schneider-Pargmann]

Hi Marc,

did you have some time to review this series? Anything I should rework?

Thanks,
Markus

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 09:56:56AM +0200, Markus Schneider-Pargmann wrote:
> Hi Marc, Simon and everyone,
> 
> v5 got a rebase on v6.5 with some small style fixes as pointed out in v4.
> 
> It is tested on tcan455x but I don't have hardware with mcan on the SoC
> myself so any testing is appreciated.
> 
> The series implements many small and bigger throughput improvements and
> adds rx/tx coalescing at the end.
> 
> Based on v6.5-rc1. Also available at
> https://gitlab.baylibre.com/msp8/linux/-/tree/topic/mcan-optimization/v6.5?ref_type=heads
> 
> Best,
> Markus
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - Add back parenthesis in m_can_set_coalesce(). This will make
>   checkpatch unhappy but gcc happy.
> - Remove unused fifo_header variable in m_can_tx_handler().
> - Rebased to v6.5-rc1
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Create and use struct m_can_fifo_element in m_can_tx_handler
> - Fix memcpy_and_pad to copy the full buffer
> - Fixed a few checkpatch warnings
> - Change putidx to be unsigned
> - Print hard_xmit error only once when TX FIFO is full
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Remove parenthesis in error messages
> - Use memcpy_and_pad for buffer copy in 'can: m_can: Write transmit
>   header and data in one transaction'.
> - Replace spin_lock with spin_lock_irqsave. I got a report of a
>   interrupt that was calling start_xmit just after the netqueue was
>   woken up before the locked region was exited. spin_lock_irqsave should
>   fix this. I attached the full stack at the end of the mail if someone
>   wants to know.
> - Rebased to v6.3-rc1.
> - Removed tcan4x5x patches from this series.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Rebased on v6.2-rc5
> - Fixed missing/broken accounting for non peripheral m_can devices.
> 
> previous versions:
> v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221221152537.751564-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230125195059.630377-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> v3 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315110546.2518305-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> v4 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230621092350.3130866-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Markus Schneider-Pargmann (12):
>   can: m_can: Write transmit header and data in one transaction
>   can: m_can: Implement receive coalescing
>   can: m_can: Implement transmit coalescing
>   can: m_can: Add rx coalescing ethtool support
>   can: m_can: Add tx coalescing ethtool support
>   can: m_can: Use u32 for putidx
>   can: m_can: Cache tx putidx
>   can: m_can: Use the workqueue as queue
>   can: m_can: Introduce a tx_fifo_in_flight counter
>   can: m_can: Use tx_fifo_in_flight for netif_queue control
>   can: m_can: Implement BQL
>   can: m_can: Implement transmit submission coalescing
> 
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 517 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.h |  35 ++-
>  2 files changed, 418 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 06c2afb862f9da8dc5efa4b6076a0e48c3fbaaa5
> -- 
> 2.40.1
>