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Commit 4d86d381 authored by Simon Horman's avatar Simon Horman Committed by David S. Miller
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ravb: RX checksum offload



Add support for RX checksum offload. This is enabled by default and
may be disabled and re-enabled using ethtool:

 # ethtool -K eth0 rx off
 # ethtool -K eth0 rx on

The RAVB provides a simple checksumming scheme which appears to be
completely compatible with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE: sum of all packet data after
the L2 header is appended to packet data; this may be trivially read by the
driver and used to update the skb accordingly.

In terms of performance throughput is close to gigabit line-rate both with
and without RX checksum offload enabled. Perf output, however, appears to
indicate that significantly less time is spent in do_csum(). This is as
expected.

Test results with RX checksum offload enabled:
 # /usr/bin/perf_3.16 record -o /run/perf.data -a netperf -t TCP_MAERTS -H 10.4.3.162
 MIGRATED TCP MAERTS TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.4.3.162 () port 0 AF_INET : demo
 enable_enobufs failed: getprotobyname
 Recv   Send    Send
 Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
 Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
 bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

  87380  16384  16384    10.00     937.54

 Summary of output of perf report:
    18.28%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
    10.34%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __pi_memcpy
     9.83%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ravb_poll
     7.89%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] skb_put
     4.01%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] dev_gro_receive
     3.37%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __arch_copy_to_user
     3.17%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] arch_cpu_idle
     2.55%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] tick_nohz_idle_enter
     2.04%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __pi___inval_dcache_area
     2.03%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irq
     1.96%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __netdev_alloc_skb
     1.59%      ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __slab_alloc.isra.83

Test results without RX checksum offload enabled:
 # /usr/bin/perf_3.16 record -o /run/perf.data -a netperf -t TCP_MAERTS -H 10.4.3.162
 MIGRATED TCP MAERTS TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 10.4.3.162 () port 0 AF_INET : demo
 enable_enobufs failed: getprotobyname
 Recv   Send    Send
 Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
 Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
 bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

  87380  16384  16384    10.00     940.20

 Summary of output of perf report:
    17.10%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
    10.99%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __pi_memcpy
     8.87%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ravb_poll
     8.16%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] skb_put
     7.42%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] do_csum
     3.91%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] dev_gro_receive
     2.31%        swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] arch_cpu_idle
     2.16%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __pi___inval_dcache_area
     2.14%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __netdev_alloc_skb
     1.93%        netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __arch_copy_to_user
     1.79%        swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] tick_nohz_idle_enter
     1.63%    ksoftirqd/0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __slab_alloc.isra.83

Above results collected on an R-Car Gen 3 Salvator-X/r8a7796 ES1.0.
Also tested on a R-Car Gen 3 Salvator-X/r8a7795 ES1.0.

By inspection this also appears to be compatible with the ravb found
on R-Car Gen 2 SoCs, however, this patch is currently untested on such
hardware.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent acd669a8
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