Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: improve RX performance

From: Lorenzo Bianconi
Date: Thu Aug 01 2024 - 03:30:27 EST


> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 4:37 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:29:58 +0300 Elad Yifee wrote:
> > > Since it's probably the reason for the performance hit,
> > > allocating full pages every time, I think your suggestion would improve the
> > > performance and probably match it with the napi_alloc_frag path.
> > > I'll give it a try when I have time.
> >
> > This is a better direction than disabling PP.
> > Feel free to repost patch 1 separately.
> > --
> > pw-bot: cr
> In this driver, the existence of PP is the condition to execute all
> XDP-related operations which aren't necessary
> on this hot path, so we anyway wouldn't want that. on XDP program
> setup the rings are reallocated and the PP
> would be created.

nope, I added page_pool support even for non-XDP mode for hw that does
not support HW-LRO. I guess mtk folks can correct me if I am wrong but
IIRC there were some hw limirations on mt7986/mt7988 for HW-LRO, so I am
not sure if it can be supported.

> Other than that, for HWLRO we need contiguous pages of different order
> than the PP, so the creation of PP
> basically prevents the use of HWLRO.
> So we solve this LRO problem and get a performance boost with this
> simple change.
>
> Lorenzo's suggestion would probably improve the performance of the XDP
> path and we should try that nonetheless.

nope, I mean to improve peformances even for non-XDP case with page_pool frag
APIs.

Regards,
Lorenzo

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