From: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesve...@gmail.com> Even if the rx ring is completely full, and there is more rx data waiting on the chip, the rx napi poll fn will never run more than once - it will always immediately bail out and re-enable interrupts. Which results in ping-pong between napi and interrupt.
This defeats the purpose of napi, and is bad for performance. Fix by addressing two separate issues: 1. Ensure the rx napi poll fn always updates the rx ring tail when returning, even when not re-enabling interrupts. 2. Up to half of elements in a full rx ring are extension frames, which do not generate any skbs. Limit the default napi weight to the smallest no. of skbs that can be generated by a full rx ring. Tested-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesve...@gmail.com> # lan7430 Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesve...@gmail.com> --- Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git # 905b2032fa42 To: Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whiteh...@microchip.com> To: Microchip Linux Driver Support <unglinuxdri...@microchip.com> To: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> To: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c index 87b6c59a1e03..ebb5e0bc516b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c @@ -2260,10 +2260,11 @@ static int lan743x_rx_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int weight) INT_BIT_DMA_RX_(rx->channel_number)); } +done: /* update RX_TAIL */ lan743x_csr_write(adapter, RX_TAIL(rx->channel_number), rx_tail_flags | rx->last_tail); -done: + return count; } @@ -2405,9 +2406,15 @@ static int lan743x_rx_open(struct lan743x_rx *rx) if (ret) goto return_error; + /* up to half of elements in a full rx ring are + * extension frames. these do not generate skbs. + * to prevent napi/interrupt ping-pong, limit default + * weight to the smallest no. of skbs that can be + * generated by a full rx ring. + */ netif_napi_add(adapter->netdev, &rx->napi, lan743x_rx_napi_poll, - rx->ring_size - 1); + (rx->ring_size - 1) / 2); lan743x_csr_write(adapter, DMAC_CMD, DMAC_CMD_RX_SWR_(rx->channel_number)); -- 2.17.1