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    net/mlx5e: XDP, Inline small packets into the TX MPWQE in XDP xmit flow · c2273219
    Shay Agroskin authored
    Upon high packet rate with multiple CPUs TX workloads, much of the HCA's
    resources are spent on prefetching TX descriptors, thus affecting
    transmission rates.
    This patch comes to mitigate this problem by moving some workload to the
    CPU and reducing the HW data prefetch overhead for small packets (<= 256B).
    
    When forwarding packets with XDP, a packet that is smaller
    than a certain size (set to ~256 bytes) would be sent inline within
    its WQE TX descrptor (mem-copied), when the hardware tx queue is congested
    beyond a pre-defined water-mark.
    
    This is added to better utilize the HW resources (which now makes
    one less packet data prefetch) and allow better scalability, on the
    account of CPU usage (which now 'memcpy's the packet into the WQE).
    
    To load balance between HW and CPU and get max packet rate, we use
    watermarks to detect how much the HW is congested and move the work
    loads back and forth between HW and CPU.
    
    Performance:
    Tested packet rate for UDP 64Byte multi-stream
    over two dual port ConnectX-5 100Gbps NICs.
    CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz
    
    * Tested with hyper-threading disabled
    
    XDP_TX:
    
    |          | before | after   |       |
    | 24 rings | 51Mpps | 116Mpps | +126% |
    | 1 ring   | 12Mpps | 12Mpps  | same  |
    
    XDP_REDIRECT:
    
    ** Below is the transmit rate, not the redirection rate
    which might be larger, and is not affected by this patch.
    
    |          | before  | after   |      |
    | 32 rings | 64Mpps  | 92Mpps  | +43% |
    | 1 ring   | 6.4Mpps | 6.4Mpps | same |
    
    As we can see, feature significantly improves scaling, without
    hurting single ring performance.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShay Agroskin <shayag@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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