On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 02:16:26PM -0800, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Andy Gospodarek <a...@greyhouse.net> wrote:
> > From: Andy Gospodarek <go...@broadcom.com>
> >
> > This implements the changes needed for the bnxt_en driver to add support
> > for dynamic interrupt moderation per ring.
> >
> > This does add additional counters in the receive path, but testing shows
> > that any additional instructions are offset by throughput gain when the
> > default configuration is for low latency.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <go...@broadcom.com>
> > Cc: Michael Chan <mc...@broadcom.com>
>
> Andy, looks good in general. I just have a few comments below. These
> minor issues can be cleaned up after merge if you want.
Thanks for the review -- not the first time you've seen it :-) -- and for
agreeing that we can cleanup after the merge. I'll need a v2, so I might as
well fix anything we want to fix now.
>
> ....
> > +int bnxt_hwrm_set_ring_coal(struct bnxt *bp, struct bnxt_napi *bnapi)
> > +{
> > + struct hwrm_ring_cmpl_ring_cfg_aggint_params_input req_rx = {0};
> > + struct bnxt_cp_ring_info *cpr = &bnapi->cp_ring;
> > + struct bnxt_coal coal;
> > + unsigned int grp_idx;
> > + int rc = 0;
> > +
> > + /* Tick values in micro seconds.
> > + * 1 coal_buf x bufs_per_record = 1 completion record.
> > + */
> > + memcpy(&coal, &bp->rx_coal, sizeof(struct bnxt_coal));
> > +
> > + coal.coal_ticks = cpr->rx_ring_coal.coal_ticks;
> > + coal.coal_bufs = cpr->rx_ring_coal.coal_bufs;
> > +
> > + if (!bnapi->rx_ring)
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > +
> > + bnxt_hwrm_cmd_hdr_init(bp, &req_rx,
> > + HWRM_RING_CMPL_RING_CFG_AGGINT_PARAMS, -1,
> > -1);
> > +
> > + bnxt_hwrm_set_coal_params(&coal, &req_rx);
> > +
> > + mutex_lock(&bp->hwrm_cmd_lock);
> > + grp_idx = bnapi->index;
> > +
> > + req_rx.ring_id = cpu_to_le16(bp->grp_info[grp_idx].cp_fw_ring_id);
> > +
> > + rc = _hwrm_send_message(bp, &req_rx, sizeof(req_rx),
> > + HWRM_CMD_TIMEOUT);
> > + mutex_unlock(&bp->hwrm_cmd_lock);
>
> You can use the hwrm_send_message() variant that does not require you
> to take the mutex. You only need this variant and take the mutex if
> you need to check the firmware reply.
>
OK, good to know. I'll consider whether or not it is important to check
the reply. I think I'd want to know if it failed, but I'm not sure what
I'd do were that error condition encountered....
> > + return rc;
> > +}
> > +
> > int bnxt_hwrm_set_coal(struct bnxt *bp)
> > {
> > int i, rc = 0;
> > @@ -5705,7 +5753,11 @@ static void bnxt_enable_napi(struct bnxt *bp)
> > int i;
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < bp->cp_nr_rings; i++) {
>
> We only need to enable this for every completion ring that has an RX
> ring. In some cases, for example when XDP is enabled, there will be a
> set of completion rings with only TX rings. So I think we can
> optimize this for completion rings with RX only.
Good call.
> > + struct bnxt_cp_ring_info *cpr = &bp->bnapi[i]->cp_ring;
> > bp->bnapi[i]->in_reset = false;
> > +
> > + INIT_WORK(&cpr->am.work, bnxt_dim_work);
> > + cpr->am.mode = NET_DIM_CQ_PERIOD_MODE_START_FROM_EQE;
> > napi_enable(&bp->bnapi[i]->napi);
> > }
> > }
