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Commit d576acf0 authored by Brenden Blanco's avatar Brenden Blanco Committed by David S. Miller
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net/mlx4_en: add page recycle to prepare rx ring for tx support



The mlx4 driver by default allocates order-3 pages for the ring to
consume in multiple fragments. When the device has an xdp program, this
behavior will prevent tx actions since the page must be re-mapped in
TODEVICE mode, which cannot be done if the page is still shared.

Start by making the allocator configurable based on whether xdp is
running, such that order-0 pages are always used and never shared.

Since this will stress the page allocator, add a simple page cache to
each rx ring. Pages in the cache are left dma-mapped, and in drop-only
stress tests the page allocator is eliminated from the perf report.

Note that setting an xdp program will now require the rings to be
reconfigured.

Before:
 26.91%  ksoftirqd/0  [mlx4_en]         [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq
 17.88%  ksoftirqd/0  [mlx4_en]         [k] mlx4_en_alloc_frags
  6.00%  ksoftirqd/0  [mlx4_en]         [k] mlx4_en_free_frag
  4.49%  ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] get_page_from_freelist
  3.21%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] intel_idle
  2.73%  ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] bpf_map_lookup_elem
  2.57%  swapper      [mlx4_en]         [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq

After:
 31.72%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]       [k] intel_idle
  8.79%  swapper      [mlx4_en]              [k] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq
  7.54%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]       [k] poll_idle
  6.36%  swapper      [mlx4_core]            [k] mlx4_eq_int
  4.21%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]       [k] tasklet_action
  4.03%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]       [k] cpuidle_enter_state
  3.43%  swapper      [mlx4_en]              [k] mlx4_en_prepare_rx_desc
  2.18%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]       [k] native_irq_return_iret
  1.37%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]       [k] menu_select
  1.09%  swapper      [kernel.vmlinux]       [k] bpf_map_lookup_elem

Signed-off-by: default avatarBrenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 86af8b41
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