ice: xsk: change batched Tx descriptor cleaning
AF_XDP Tx descriptor cleaning in ice driver currently works in a "lazy" way - descriptors are not cleaned immediately after send. We rather hold on with cleaning until we see that free space in ring drops below particular threshold. This was supposed to reduce the amount of unnecessary work related to cleaning and instead of keeping the ring empty, ring was rather saturated. In AF_XDP realm cleaning Tx descriptors implies producing them to CQ. This is a way of letting know user space that particular descriptor has been sent, as John points out in [0]. We tried to implement serial descriptor cleaning which would be used in conjunction with batched cleaning but it made code base more convoluted and probably harder to maintain in future. Therefore we step away from batched cleaning in a current form in favor of an approach where we set RS bit on every last descriptor from a batch and clean always at the beginning of ice_xmit_zc(). This means that we give up a bit of Tx performance, but this doesn't hurt l2fwd scenario which is way more meaningful than txonly as this can be treaten as AF_XDP based packet generator. l2fwd is not hurt due to the fact that Tx side is much faster than Rx and Rx is the one that has to catch Tx up. FWIW Tx descriptors are still produced in a batched way. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/62b0a20232920_3573208ab@john.notmuch/ Fixes: 126cdfe1 ("ice: xsk: Improve AF_XDP ZC Tx and use batching API") Signed-off-by:Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com> Tested-by:
George Kuruvinakunnel <george.kuruvinakunnel@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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