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Commit 99f6b5fb authored by Yunsheng Lin's avatar Yunsheng Lin Committed by David S. Miller
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net: hns3: use bounce buffer when rx page can not be reused



Currently rx page will be reused to receive future packet when
the stack releases the previous skb quickly. If the old page
can not be reused, a new page will be allocated and mapped,
which comsumes a lot of cpu when IOMMU is in the strict mode,
especially when the application and irq/NAPI happens to run on
the same cpu.

So allocate a new frag to memcpy the data to avoid the costly
IOMMU unmapping/mapping operation, and add "frag_alloc_err"
and "frag_alloc" stats in "ethtool -S ethX" cmd.

The throughput improves above 50% when running single thread of
iperf using TCP when IOMMU is in strict mode and iperf shares the
same cpu with irq/NAPI(rx_copybreak = 2048 and mtu = 1500).

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>
parent fa7711b8
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