Hi Marcin, On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 08:53:52AM +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote: > Mixed approach allows using higher interrupt threshold (increased back to > 15 packets), useful in high throughput. In case of small amount of data > or very short TX queues HR timer ensures releasing buffers with small > latency. > > Along with existing tx_done processing by coalescing interrupts this > commit enables triggering HR timer each time the packets are sent. > Time threshold can also be configured, using ethtool. > > Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Simon Guinot <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 89 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c > b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c > index 9c9e858..f5acaf6 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c > @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ > #include <linux/module.h> > #include <linux/interrupt.h> > #include <linux/if_vlan.h> > +#include <linux/hrtimer.h> > +#include <linux/ktime.h>
ktime.h is already included by hrtimer.h.
> #include <net/ip.h>
> #include <net/ipv6.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> @@ -226,7 +228,8 @@
> /* Various constants */
>
> /* Coalescing */
> -#define MVNETA_TXDONE_COAL_PKTS 1
> +#define MVNETA_TXDONE_COAL_PKTS 15
> +#define MVNETA_TXDONE_COAL_USEC 100
Maybe we should keep the default configuration and let the user choose
to enable (or not) this feature ?
> #define MVNETA_RX_COAL_PKTS 32
> #define MVNETA_RX_COAL_USEC 100
>
> @@ -356,6 +359,11 @@ struct mvneta_port {
> struct net_device *dev;
> struct notifier_block cpu_notifier;
>
> + /* Egress finalization */
> + struct tasklet_struct tx_done_tasklet;
> + struct hrtimer tx_done_timer;
> + bool timer_scheduled;
I think we could use hrtimer_is_queued() instead of introducing a new
variable.
[...]
Simon
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