From f19fadfce8717d1da5e38c12d0dbe473bc3a7626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: willy tarreau Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:20:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: mvneta: implement rx_copybreak calling dma_map_single()/dma_unmap_single() is quite expensive compared to copying a small packet. So let's copy short frames and keep the buffers mapped. We set the limit to 256 bytes which seems to give good results both on the XP-GP board and on the AX3/4. The Rx small packet rate increased by 16.4% doing this, from 486kpps to 573kpps. It is worth noting that even the call to the function dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu() is expensive (300 ns) although less than dma_unmap_single(). Without it, the packet rate raises to 711kpps (+24% more). Thus on systems where coherency from device to CPU is guaranteed by a snoop control unit, this patch should provide even more gains, and probably rx_copybreak could be increased. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Gregory CLEMENT Tested-by: Arnaud Ebalard Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed