On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:52 PM Lance Richardson
<lance.richard...@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> Remove early buffer posting logic from burst receive loop to address
> several issues:
> - Posting receive descriptors without first posting completion
> entries risks overflowing the completion queue.
> - Posting receive descriptors without updating rx_raw_prod
> creates the possibility that the receive descriptor doorbell
> can be written twice with the same value.
> - Having this logic in the inner descriptor processing loop
> can impact performance.
>
> Fixes: 637e34befd9c ("net/bnxt: optimize Rx processing")
> Fixes: 04067844a3e9 ("net/bnxt: reduce CQ queue size without aggregation
> ring")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richard...@broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ajit Kumar Khaparde <ajit.khapa...@broadcom.com>
Patch applied to dpdk-next-net-brcm.
> ---
> drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c | 3 ---
> drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.h | 2 --
> 2 files changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c
> index c72545ada7..7179c6cb30 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.c
> @@ -1018,9 +1018,6 @@ uint16_t bnxt_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf
> **rx_pkts,
> raw_cons = NEXT_RAW_CMP(raw_cons);
> if (nb_rx_pkts == nb_pkts || nb_rep_rx_pkts == nb_pkts || evt)
> break;
> - /* Post some Rx buf early in case of larger burst processing
> */
> - if (nb_rx_pkts == BNXT_RX_POST_THRESH)
> - bnxt_db_write(&rxr->rx_db, rxr->rx_raw_prod);
> }
>
> cpr->cp_raw_cons = raw_cons;
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.h b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.h
> index a6fdd7767a..b43256e03e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.h
> @@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ static inline uint16_t bnxt_tpa_start_agg_id(struct bnxt
> *bp,
> (((cmp)->agg_bufs_v1 & RX_PKT_CMPL_AGG_BUFS_MASK) >> \
> RX_PKT_CMPL_AGG_BUFS_SFT)
>
> -#define BNXT_RX_POST_THRESH 32
> -
> /* Number of descriptors to process per inner loop in vector mode. */
> #define RTE_BNXT_DESCS_PER_LOOP 4U
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
