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    • Manish Chopra's avatar
      qede: Add build_skb() support. · 8a863397
      Manish Chopra authored
      
      
      This patch makes use of build_skb() throughout in driver's receieve
      data path [HW gro flow and non HW gro flow]. With this, driver can
      build skb directly from the page segments which are already mapped
      to the hardware instead of allocating new SKB via netdev_alloc_skb()
      and memcpy the data which is quite costly.
      
      This really improves performance (keeping same or slight gain in rx
      throughput) in terms of CPU utilization which is significantly reduced
      [almost half] in non HW gro flow where for every incoming MTU sized
      packet driver had to allocate skb, memcpy headers etc. Additionally
      in that flow, it also gets rid of bunch of additional overheads
      [eth_get_headlen() etc.] to split headers and data in the skb.
      
      Tested with:
      system: 2 sockets, 4 cores per socket, hyperthreading, 2x4x2=16 cores
      iperf [server]: iperf -s
      iperf [client]: iperf -c <server_ip> -t 500 -i 10 -P 32
      
      HW GRO off – w/o build_skb(), throughput: 36.8 Gbits/sec
      
      Average:     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
      Average:     all    0.59    0.00   32.93    0.00    0.00   43.07    0.00    0.00   23.42
      
      HW GRO off - with build_skb(), throughput: 36.9 Gbits/sec
      
      Average:     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
      Average:     all    0.70    0.00   31.70    0.00    0.00   25.68    0.00    0.00   41.92
      
      HW GRO on - w/o build_skb(), throughput: 36.9 Gbits/sec
      
      Average:     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
      Average:     all    0.86    0.00   24.14    0.00    0.00    6.59    0.00    0.00   68.41
      
      HW GRO on - with build_skb(), throughput: 37.5 Gbits/sec
      
      Average:     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
      Average:     all    0.87    0.00   23.75    0.00    0.00    6.19    0.00    0.00   69.19
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAriel Elior <ariel.elior@cavium.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarManish Chopra <manish.chopra@cavium.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      8a863397
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