net/mlx5e: Support enhanced CQE compression
authorOfer Levi <oferle@nvidia.com>
Tue, 9 Feb 2021 15:48:11 +0000 (17:48 +0200)
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 10:20:19 +0000 (02:20 -0800)
commit2c925db0a7d69b404d6bfe4c037935c2d367913d
tree2240599dab471a8040075f255584d6ec774f4366
parent9458108040b3c0980a02308ddf30568b9823349c
net/mlx5e: Support enhanced CQE compression

CQE compression feature improves performance by reducing PCI bandwidth
bottleneck on CQEs write.
Enhanced CQE compression introduced in ConnectX-6 and it aims to reduce
CPU utilization of SW side packets decompression by eliminating the
need to rewrite ownership bit, which is likely to cost a cache-miss, is
replaced by validity byte handled solely by HW.
Another advantage of the enhanced feature is that session packets are
available to SW as soon as a single CQE slot is filled, instead of
waiting for session to close, this improves packet latency from NIC to
host.

Performance:
Following are tested scenarios and reults comparing basic and enahnced
CQE compression.

setup: IXIA 100GbE connected directly to port 0 and port 1 of
ConnectX-6 Dx 100GbE dual port.

Case #1 RX only, single flow goes to single queue:
IRQ rate reduced by ~ 30%, CPU utilization improved by 2%.

Case #2 IP forwarding from port 1 to port 0 single flow goes to
single queue:
Avg latency improved from 60us to 21us, frame loss improved from 0.5% to 0.0%.

Case #3 IP forwarding from port 1 to port 0 Max Throughput IXIA sends
100%, 8192 UDP flows, goes to 24 queues:
Enhanced is equal or slightly better than basic.

Testing the basic compression feature with this patch shows there is
no perfrormance degradation of the basic compression feature.

Signed-off-by: Ofer Levi <oferle@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/wq.h
include/linux/mlx5/device.h