Re: [PATCH net-next] bcm63xx_enet: batch process rx path

[Eric Dumazet]

On 12/4/20 6:46 AM, Sieng Piaw Liew wrote:
> Use netif_receive_skb_list to batch process rx skb.
> Tested on BCM6328 320 MHz using iperf3 -M 512, increasing performance
> by 12.5%.
> 



Well, the real question is why you do not simply use GRO,
to get 100% performance gain or more for TCP flows.


netif_receive_skb_list() is no longer needed,
GRO layer already uses batching for non TCP packets.

We probably should mark is deprecated.

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c
index 
916824cca3fda194c42fefec7f514ced1a060043..6fdbe231b7c1b27f523889bda8a20ab7eaab65a6
 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static int bcm_enet_receive_queue(struct net_device *dev, 
int budget)
                skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
                dev->stats.rx_packets++;
                dev->stats.rx_bytes += len;
-               netif_receive_skb(skb);
+               napi_gro_receive_skb(&priv->napi, skb);
 
        } while (--budget > 0);