Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/4] net: stmmac: Set page_pool_params.max_len to a precise size

From: Yanteng Si
Date: Wed Jan 15 2025 - 05:08:01 EST


在 2025/1/15 11:27, Furong Xu 写道:
DMA engine will always write no more than dma_buf_sz bytes of a received
frame into a page buffer, the remaining spaces are unused or used by CPU
exclusively.
Setting page_pool_params.max_len to almost the full size of page(s) helps
nothing more, but wastes more CPU cycles on cache maintenance.

For a standard MTU of 1500, then dma_buf_sz is assigned to 1536, and this
patch brings ~16.9% driver performance improvement in a TCP RX
throughput test with iPerf tool on a single isolated Cortex-A65 CPU
core, from 2.43 Gbits/sec increased to 2.84 Gbits/sec.

Signed-off-by: Furong Xu <0x1207@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Yanteng

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drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_xdp.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)