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Commit 907676b1 authored by Yunsheng Lin's avatar Yunsheng Lin Committed by David S. Miller
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net: hns3: use tx bounce buffer for small packets



when the packet or frag size is small, it causes both security and
performance issue. As dma can't map sub-page, this means some extra
kernel data is visible to devices. On the other hand, the overhead
of dma map and unmap is huge when IOMMU is on.

So add a queue based tx shared bounce buffer to memcpy the small
packet when the len of the xmitted skb is below tx_copybreak.
Add tx_spare_buf_size module param to set the size of tx spare
buffer, and add set/get_tunable to set or query the tx_copybreak.

The throughtput improves from 30 Gbps to 90+ Gbps when running 16
netperf threads with 32KB UDP message size when IOMMU is in the
strict mode(tx_copybreak = 2000 and mtu = 1500).

Suggested-by: default avatarBarry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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