From: Nimrod Andy <B38611@freescale.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:16:23 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: net: fec: Add software TSO support
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.16/fixes-against-rc1~36^2~2^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79f339125ea316e910220e5f5b4ad30370f4de85;p=pandora-kernel.git

net: fec: Add software TSO support

Add software TSO support for FEC.
This feature allows to improve outbound throughput performance.

Tested on imx6dl sabresd board, running iperf tcp tests shows:
- 16.2% improvement comparing with FEC SG patch
- 82% improvement comparing with NO SG & TSO patch

$ ethtool -K eth0 tso on
$ iperf -c 10.192.242.167 -t 3 &
[  3] local 10.192.242.108 port 35388 connected with 10.192.242.167 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0- 3.0 sec   181 MBytes   506 Mbits/sec

During the testing, CPU loading is 30%.
Since imx6dl FEC Bandwidth is limited to SOC system bus bandwidth, the
performance with SW TSO is a milestone.

CC: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
CC: Li Frank <B20596@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <B38611@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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