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    ixgbe: Replace standard receive path with a page based receive · f800326d
    Alexander Duyck authored
    This patch replaces the existing Rx hot-path in the ixgbe driver with a new
    implementation that is based on performing a double buffered receive.  The
    ixgbe driver already had something similar in place for its' packet split
    path, however in that case we were still receiving the header for the
    packet into the sk_buff.  The big change here is the entire receive path
    will receive into pages only, and then pull the header out of the page and
    copy it into the sk_buff data.  There are several motivations behind this
    approach.
    
    First, this allows us to avoid several cache misses as we were taking a
    set of cache misses for allocating the sk_buff and then another set for
    receiving data into the sk_buff.  We are able to avoid these misses on
    receive now as we allocate the sk_buff when data is available.
    
    Second we are able to see a considerable performance gain when an IOMMU is
    enabled because we are no longer unmapping every buffer on receive.
    Instead we can delay the unmap until we are unable to use the page, and
    instead we can simply call sync_single_range on the half of the page that
    contains new data.
    
    Finally we are able to drop a considerable amount of code from the driver
    as we no longer have to support 2 different receive modes, packet split and
    one buffer.  This allows us to optimize the Rx path further since less
    branching is required.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarRoss Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarStephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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