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Commit a8ee104f authored by David Arinzon's avatar David Arinzon Committed by David S. Miller
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net: ena: Update NUMA TPH hint register upon NUMA node update



The device supports a PCIe optimization hint, which indicates on
which NUMA the queue is currently processed. This hint is utilized
by PCIe in order to reduce its access time by accessing the
correct NUMA resources and maintaining cache coherence.

The driver calls the register update for the hint (called TPH -
TLP Processing Hint) during the NAPI loop.

Though the update is expected upon a NUMA change (when a queue
is moved from one NUMA to the other), the current logic performs
a register update when the queue is moved to a different CPU,
but the CPU is not necessarily in a different NUMA.

The changes include:
1. Performing the TPH update only when the queue has switched
a NUMA node.
2. Moving the TPH update call to be triggered only when NAPI was
scheduled from interrupt context, as opposed to a busy-polling loop.
This is due to the fact that during busy-polling, the frequency
of CPU switches for a particular queue is significantly higher,
thus, the likelihood to switch NUMA is much higher. Therefore,
providing the frequent updates to the device upon a NUMA update
are unlikely to be beneficial.

Fixes: 1738cd3e ("net: ena: Add a driver for Amazon Elastic Network Adapters (ENA)")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Arinzon <darinzon@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e712f3e4
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