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Commit 7ae92ae5 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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mlx5: add busy polling support



It is now easy to add busy polling support to a NAPI driver,
with very little impact on normal input path.

This patch serves as a reference implementation.

Note:

A followup patch will add proper napi_complete_done() in mlx5,
so that LINUX_MIB_BUSYPOLLRXPACKETS snmp counter is properly handled.

Tested:

Normal TCP_RR results without busy polling :

lpk51:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read
lpk52:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read

lpk51:~# ./netperf -H 192.168.4.52 -t TCP_RR -l 10
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.4.52 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0
Local /Remote
Socket Size   Request  Resp.   Elapsed  Trans.
Send   Recv   Size     Size    Time     Rate
bytes  Bytes  bytes    bytes   secs.    per sec

16384  87380  1        1       10.00    53509.49
16384  87380

Now enable busy polling :

lpk51:~# echo 70 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read
lpk52:~# echo 70 >/proc/sys/net/core/busy_read

lpk51:~# ./netperf -H 192.168.4.52 -t TCP_RR -l 10
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.4.52 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0
Local /Remote
Socket Size   Request  Resp.   Elapsed  Trans.
Send   Recv   Size     Size    Time     Rate
bytes  Bytes  bytes    bytes   secs.    per sec

16384  87380  1        1       10.00    97530.92
16384  87380

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ce6aea93
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