net/mlx5e: Support multiple SKBs in a TX WQE
TX MPWQE support for SKBs is coming in one of the following patches, and a single MPWQE can send multiple SKBs. This commit prepares the TX path code to handle such cases: 1. An additional FIFO for SKBs is added, just like the FIFO for DMA chunks. 2. struct mlx5e_tx_wqe_info will contain num_fifo_pkts. If a given WQE contains only one packet, num_fifo_pkts will be zero, and the SKB will be stored in mlx5e_tx_wqe_info, as usual. If num_fifo_pkts > 0, the SKB pointer will be NULL, and the SKBs will be stored in the FIFO. This change has no performance impact in TCP single stream test and XDP_TX single stream test. When compiled with a recent GCC, this change shows no visible performance impact on UDP pktgen (burst 32) single stream test either: Packet rate: 16.95 Mpps (±0.15 Mpps) -> 16.96 Mpps (±0.12 Mpps) Instructions per packet: 429 -> 421 Cycles per packet: 160 -> 156 Instructions per cycle: 2.69 -> 2.70 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz (x86_64) NIC: Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx GCC 10.2.0 Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
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