[PATCH v3 net-next 2/6] net: mvneta: Use cacheable memory to store the rx buffer virtual address
Gregory CLEMENT
gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Tue Nov 29 02:19:52 PST 2016
Hi Marcin,
On mar., nov. 29 2016, Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
>
> Another remark below, sorry for noise.
>
> 2016-11-29 10:37 GMT+01:00 Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>:
>> Until now the virtual address of the received buffer were stored in the
>> cookie field of the rx descriptor. However, this field is 32-bits only
>> which prevents to use the driver on a 64-bits architecture.
>>
>> With this patch the virtual address is stored in an array not shared with
>> the hardware (no more need to use the DMA API). Thanks to this, it is
>> possible to use cache contrary to the access of the rx descriptor member.
>>
>> The change is done in the swbm path only because the hwbm uses the cookie
>> field, this also means that currently the hwbm is not usable in 64-bits.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
>> index 1b84f746d748..32b142d0e44e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
>> @@ -561,6 +561,9 @@ struct mvneta_rx_queue {
>> u32 pkts_coal;
>> u32 time_coal;
>>
>> + /* Virtual address of the RX buffer */
>> + void **buf_virt_addr;
>> +
>> /* Virtual address of the RX DMA descriptors array */
>> struct mvneta_rx_desc *descs;
>>
>> @@ -1573,10 +1576,14 @@ static void mvneta_tx_done_pkts_coal_set(struct mvneta_port *pp,
>>
>> /* Handle rx descriptor fill by setting buf_cookie and buf_phys_addr */
>> static void mvneta_rx_desc_fill(struct mvneta_rx_desc *rx_desc,
>> - u32 phys_addr, u32 cookie)
>> + u32 phys_addr, void *virt_addr,
>> + struct mvneta_rx_queue *rxq)
>> {
>> - rx_desc->buf_cookie = cookie;
>> + int i;
>> +
>> rx_desc->buf_phys_addr = phys_addr;
>> + i = rx_desc - rxq->descs;
>> + rxq->buf_virt_addr[i] = virt_addr;
>> }
>>
>> /* Decrement sent descriptors counter */
>> @@ -1781,7 +1788,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mvneta_frag_free);
>>
>> /* Refill processing for SW buffer management */
>> static int mvneta_rx_refill(struct mvneta_port *pp,
>> - struct mvneta_rx_desc *rx_desc)
>> + struct mvneta_rx_desc *rx_desc,
>> + struct mvneta_rx_queue *rxq)
>>
>> {
>> dma_addr_t phys_addr;
>> @@ -1799,7 +1807,7 @@ static int mvneta_rx_refill(struct mvneta_port *pp,
>> return -ENOMEM;
>> }
>>
>> - mvneta_rx_desc_fill(rx_desc, phys_addr, (u32)data);
>> + mvneta_rx_desc_fill(rx_desc, phys_addr, data, rxq);
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> @@ -1861,7 +1869,12 @@ static void mvneta_rxq_drop_pkts(struct mvneta_port *pp,
>>
>> for (i = 0; i < rxq->size; i++) {
>> struct mvneta_rx_desc *rx_desc = rxq->descs + i;
>> - void *data = (void *)rx_desc->buf_cookie;
>> + void *data;
>> +
>> + if (!pp->bm_priv)
>> + data = rxq->buf_virt_addr[i];
>> + else
>> + data = (void *)(uintptr_t)rx_desc->buf_cookie;
>
> Dropping packets for HWBM (in fact returning dropped buffers to the
> pool) is done a couple of lines above. This point will never be
indeed I changed the code at every place the buf_cookie was used and
missed the fact that for HWBM this code was never reached.
> reached with HWBM enabled (and it's also incorrect).
What is incorrect?
Gregory
>
> Best regards,
> Marcin
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