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Sieng Piaw Liew authored
We can increase the efficiency of rx path by using buffers to receive packets then build SKBs around them just before passing into the network stack. In contrast, preallocating SKBs too early reduces CPU cache efficiency. Check if we're in NAPI context when refilling RX. Normally we're almost always running in NAPI context. Dispatch to napi_alloc_frag directly instead of relying on netdev_alloc_frag which does the same but with the overhead of local_bh_disable/enable. Tested on BCM6328 320 MHz and iperf3 -M 512 to measure packet/sec performance. Included netif_receive_skb_list and NET_IP_ALIGN optimizations. Before: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 49.9 MBytes 41.9 Mbits/sec 197 sender [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 49.3 MBytes 41.3 Mbits/sec receiver After: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr [ 4] 0.00-30.00 sec 171 MBytes 47.8 Mbits/sec 272 sender [ 4] 0.00-30.00 sec 170 MBytes 47.6 Mbits/sec receiver Signed-off-by: Sieng Piaw Liew <liew.s.piaw@gmail.com> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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