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Daniel Pieczko authored
On POWER systems, DMA mapping/unmapping operations are very expensive. These changes reduce these costs by trying to reuse DMA mapped pages. After all the buffers associated with a page have been processed and passed up, the page is placed into a ring (if there is room). For each page that is required for a refill operation, a page in the ring is examined to determine if its page count has fallen to 1, ie. the kernel has released its reference to these packets. If this is the case, the page can be immediately added back into the RX descriptor ring, without having to re-map it for DMA. If the kernel is still holding a reference to this page, it is removed from the ring and unmapped for DMA. Then a new page, which can immediately be used by RX buffers in the descriptor ring, is allocated and DMA mapped. The time a page needs to spend in the recycle ring before the kernel has released its page references is based on the number of buffers that use this page. As large pages can hold more RX buffers, the RX recycle ring can be shorter. This reduces memory usage on POWER systems, while maintaining the performance gain achieved by recycling pages, following the driver change to pack more than two RX buffers into large pages. When an IOMMU is not present, the recycle ring can be small to reduce memory usage, since DMA mapping operations are inexpensive. With a small recycle ring, attempting to refill the descriptor queue with more buffers than the equivalent size of the recycle ring could ultimately lead to memory leaks if page entries in the recycle ring were overwritten. To prevent this, the check to see if the recycle ring is full is changed to check if the next entry to be written is NULL. [bwh: Combine and rebase several commits so this is complete before the following buffer-packing changes. Remove module parameter.] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
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