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    net/mlx5e: Enable CQE based moderation on TX CQ · 0088cbbc
    Tal Gilboa authored
    By using CQE based moderation on TX CQ we can reduce the number of TX
    interrupt rate. Besides the benefit of less interrupts, this also
    allows the kernel to better utilize TSO. Since TSO has some CPU overhead,
    it might not aggregate when CPU is under high stress. By reducing the
    interrupt rate and the CPU utilization, we can get better aggregation
    and better overall throughput.
    The feature is enabled by default and has a private flag in ethtool
    for control.
    
    Throughput, interrupt rate and TSO utilization improvements:
    (ConnectX-4Lx 40GbE, unidirectional, 1/16 TCP streams, 64B packets)
    ---------------------------------------------------------
    Metric   | Streams | CQE Based | EQE Based | improvement
    ---------------------------------------------------------
    BW       |    1    |  2.4Gb/s  | 2.15Gb/s  |  +11.6%
    IR       |    1    |  27Kips   | 50.6Kips  |  -46.7%
    TSO Util |    1    |  74.6%    | 71%       |  +5%
    BW       |    16   |  29Gb/s   | 25.85Gb/s |  +12.2%
    IR       |    16   |  482Kips  | 745Kips   |  -35.3%
    TSO Util |    16   |  69.1%    | 49%       |  +41.1%
    
    *BW = Bandwidth, IR = Interrupt rate, ips = interrupt per second.
    TSO Util = bytes in TSO sessions / all bytes transferred
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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