net: mvneta: replace Tx timer with a real interrupt
commit 71f6d1b3 upstream. Right now the mvneta driver doesn't handle Tx IRQ, and relies on two mechanisms to flush Tx descriptors : a flush at the end of mvneta_tx() and a timer. If a burst of packets is emitted faster than the device can send them, then the queue is stopped until next wake-up of the timer 10ms later. This causes jerky output traffic with bursts and pauses, making it difficult to reach line rate with very few streams. A test on UDP traffic shows that it's not possible to go beyond 134 Mbps / 12 kpps of outgoing traffic with 1500-bytes IP packets. Routed traffic tends to observe pauses as well if the traffic is bursty, making it even burstier after the wake-up. It seems that this feature was inherited from the original driver but nothing there mentions any reason for not using the interrupt instead, which the chip supports. Thus, this patch enables Tx interrupts and removes the timer. It does the two at once because it's not really possible to make the two mechanisms coexist, so a split patch doesn't make sense. First tests performed on a Mirabox (Armada 370) show that less CPU seems to be used when sending traffic. One reason might be that we now call the mvneta_tx_done_gbe() with a mask indicating which queues have been done instead of looping over all of them. The same UDP test above now happily reaches 987 Mbps / 87.7 kpps. Single-stream TCP traffic can now more easily reach line rate. HTTP transfers of 1 MB objects over a single connection went from 730 to 840 Mbps. It is even possible to go significantly higher (>900 Mbps) by tweaking tcp_tso_win_divisor. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Cc: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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