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    net/mlx5e: Enable adaptive-TX moderation · cbce4f44
    Tal Gilboa authored
    Add support for adaptive TX moderation. This greatly reduces TX interrupt
    rate and increases bandwidth, mostly for TCP bandwidth over ARM
    architecture (below). There is a slight single stream TCP with very large
    message sizes degradation (x86). In this case if there's any moderation on
    transmitted packets the bandwidth would reduce due to hitting TCP output limit.
    Since this is a synthetic case, this is still worth doing.
    
    Performance improvement (ConnectX-4Lx 40GbE, ARM)
    TCP 64B bandwidth with 1-50 streams increased 6-35%.
    TCP 64B bandwidth with 100-500 streams increased 20-70%.
    
    Performance improvement (ConnectX-5 100GbE, x86)
    Bandwidth: increased up to 40% (1024B with 10s of streams).
    Interrupt rate: reduced up to 50% (1024B with 1000s of streams).
    
    Performance degradation (ConnectX-5 100GbE, x86)
    Bandwidth: up to 10% decrease single stream TCP (1MB message size from
    51Gb/s to 47Gb/s).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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