sfc: Feed GRO result into RX allocation policy and interrupt moderation
authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:21:24 +0000 (07:21 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:37:06 +0000 (21:37 -0700)
When GRO is successfully merging received packets, we should allocate
raw page buffers rather than skbs that will be discarded by GRO.
Otherwise, we should allocate skbs.

GRO also benefits from higher interrupt moderation, so increase the
score for mergeable RX packets.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/sfc/rx.c

index 4b65c626a45769e0474d6b62cc00fd7d749f2e8d..9277e9aaad092e60e3681ecb016bf2218b950fa1 100644 (file)
@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ static void efx_rx_packet_lro(struct efx_channel *channel,
                              bool checksummed)
 {
        struct napi_struct *napi = &channel->napi_str;
+       gro_result_t gro_result;
 
        /* Pass the skb/page into the LRO engine */
        if (rx_buf->page) {
@@ -452,6 +453,7 @@ static void efx_rx_packet_lro(struct efx_channel *channel,
 
                if (!skb) {
                        put_page(rx_buf->page);
+                       gro_result = GRO_DROP;
                        goto out;
                }
 
@@ -467,7 +469,7 @@ static void efx_rx_packet_lro(struct efx_channel *channel,
                skb->ip_summed =
                        checksummed ? CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY : CHECKSUM_NONE;
 
-               napi_gro_frags(napi);
+               gro_result = napi_gro_frags(napi);
 
 out:
                EFX_BUG_ON_PARANOID(rx_buf->skb);
@@ -476,9 +478,16 @@ out:
                EFX_BUG_ON_PARANOID(!rx_buf->skb);
                EFX_BUG_ON_PARANOID(!checksummed);
 
-               napi_gro_receive(napi, rx_buf->skb);
+               gro_result = napi_gro_receive(napi, rx_buf->skb);
                rx_buf->skb = NULL;
        }
+
+       if (gro_result == GRO_NORMAL) {
+               channel->rx_alloc_level += RX_ALLOC_FACTOR_SKB;
+       } else if (gro_result != GRO_DROP) {
+               channel->rx_alloc_level += RX_ALLOC_FACTOR_LRO;
+               channel->irq_mod_score += 2;
+       }
 }
 
 void efx_rx_packet(struct efx_rx_queue *rx_queue, unsigned int index,