net/mlx5e: Implement RX mapped page cache for page recycle
authorTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:08:38 +0000 (16:08 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:51:40 +0000 (09:51 -0400)
commit4415a0319f92ea0d624fe11c917faf9114f89187
tree8933cfb00c8a32cab623dc6215ff637a60d2e723
parenta5a0c590166e39fa399940775e7bfd8e1a9356da
net/mlx5e: Implement RX mapped page cache for page recycle

Instead of reallocating and mapping pages for RX data-path,
recycle already used pages in a per ring cache.

Performance tests:
The following results were measured on a freshly booted system,
giving optimal baseline performance, as high-order pages are yet to
be fragmented and depleted.

We ran pktgen single-stream benchmarks, with iptables-raw-drop:

Single stride, 64 bytes:
* 4,739,057 - baseline
* 4,749,550 - order0 no cache
* 4,786,899 - order0 with cache
1% gain

Larger packets, no page cross, 1024 bytes:
* 3,982,361 - baseline
* 3,845,682 - order0 no cache
* 4,127,852 - order0 with cache
3.7% gain

Larger packets, every 3rd packet crosses a page, 1500 bytes:
* 3,731,189 - baseline
* 3,579,414 - order0 no cache
* 3,931,708 - order0 with cache
5.4% gain

Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_stats.h