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Commit a3a8749d authored by Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar Jesper Dangaard Brouer Committed by David S. Miller
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ixgbe: bulk free SKBs during TX completion cleanup cycle



There is an opportunity to bulk free SKBs during reclaiming of
resources after DMA transmit completes in ixgbe_clean_tx_irq.  Thus,
bulk freeing at this point does not introduce any added latency.

Simply use napi_consume_skb() which were recently introduced.  The
napi_budget parameter is needed by napi_consume_skb() to detect if it
is called from netpoll.

Benchmarking IPv4-forwarding, on CPU i7-4790K @4.2GHz (no turbo boost)
 Single CPU/flow numbers: before: 1982144 pps ->  after : 2064446 pps
 Improvement: +82302 pps, -20 nanosec, +4.1%
 (SLUB and GCC version 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4))

Joint work with Alexander Duyck.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 15fad714
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