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    net: forcedeth: add xmit_more support · 5d8876e2
    Zhu Yanjun authored
    This change adds support for xmit_more based on the igb commit 6f19e12f
    ("igb: flush when in xmit_more mode and under descriptor pressure") and
    commit 6b16f9ee ("net: move skb->xmit_more hint to softnet data") that
    were made to igb to support this feature. The function netif_xmit_stopped
    is called to check whether transmit queue on device is currently unable to
    send to determine whether we must write the tail because we can add no
    further buffers.
    
    When normal packets and/or xmit_more packets fill up tx_desc, it is
    necessary to trigger NIC tx reg.
    
    Following the advice from David Miller and Jakub Kicinski, after the
    xmit_more feature is added, the following scenario will occur.
    
             |
       xmit_more packets
             |
       DMA_MAPPING
             |
       DMA_MAPPING error check
             |
       xmit_more packets already in HW xmit queue
             |
    
    In the above scenario, if DMA_MAPPING error occurrs, the xmit_more packets
    already in HW xmit queue will also be dropped. This is different from the
    behavior before xmit_more feature. So it is necessary to trigger NIC HW tx
    reg in the above scenario.
    
    To the non-xmit_more packets, the above scenario will not occur.
    
    Tested:
      - pktgen (xmit_more packets) SMP x86_64 ->
        Test command:
        ./pktgen_sample03_burst_single_flow.sh ... -b 8 -n 1000000
        Test results:
        Params:
        ...
        burst: 8
        ...
        Result: OK: 12194004(c12188996+d5007) usec, 1000001 (1500byte,0frags)
        82007pps 984Mb/sec (984084000bps) errors: 0
    
      - iperf (normal packets) SMP x86_64 ->
        Test command:
        Server: iperf -s
        Client: iperf -c serverip
        Result:
        TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
        ------------------------------------------------------------
        [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
        [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.10 GBytes   942 Mbits/sec
    
    CC: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
    CC: JUNXIAO_BI <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarNan san <nan.1986san@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    5d8876e2
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