[PATCH net-next v2] net: ti: icssg_prueth: Add SW TX / RX Coalescing based on hrtimers

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Mon Apr 29 05:50:00 PDT 2024


On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 12:45:01PM +0530, MD Danish Anwar wrote:
> Add SW IRQ coalescing based on hrtimers for RX and TX data path for ICSSG
> driver, which can be enabled by ethtool commands:
> 
> - RX coalescing
>   ethtool -C eth1 rx-usecs 50
> 
> - TX coalescing can be enabled per TX queue
> 
>   - by default enables coalesing for TX0
>   ethtool -C eth1 tx-usecs 50
>   - configure TX0
>   ethtool -Q eth0 queue_mask 1 --coalesce tx-usecs 100
>   - configure TX1
>   ethtool -Q eth0 queue_mask 2 --coalesce tx-usecs 100
>   - configure TX0 and TX1
>   ethtool -Q eth0 queue_mask 3 --coalesce tx-usecs 100 --coalesce
> tx-usecs 100
> 
> Minimum value for both rx-usecs and tx-usecs is 20us.
> 
> Compared to gro_flush_timeout and napi_defer_hard_irqs this patch allows
> to enable IRQ coalescing for RX path separately.
> 
> Benchmarking numbers:
>  ===============================================================
> | Method                  | Tput_TX | CPU_TX | Tput_RX | CPU_RX |
> | ==============================================================
> | Default Driver           943 Mbps    31%      517 Mbps  38%   |
> | IRQ Coalescing (Patch)   943 Mbps    28%      518 Mbps  25%   |
>  ===============================================================
> 
> Signed-off-by: MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar at ti.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

    Andrew



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