Commit a955318f authored by Matteo Croce's avatar Matteo Croce Committed by David S. Miller

stmmac: align RX buffers

On RX an SKB is allocated and the received buffer is copied into it.
But on some architectures, the memcpy() needs the source and destination
buffers to have the same alignment to be efficient.

This is not our case, because SKB data pointer is misaligned by two bytes
to compensate the ethernet header.

Align the RX buffer the same way as the SKB one, so the copy is faster.
An iperf3 RX test gives a decent improvement on a RISC-V machine:

before:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   733 MBytes   615 Mbits/sec   88             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   730 MBytes   612 Mbits/sec                  receiver

after:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   940 Mbits/sec                  receiver

And the memcpy() overhead during the RX drops dramatically.

before:
Overhead  Shared O  Symbol
  43.35%  [kernel]  [k] memcpy
  33.77%  [kernel]  [k] __asm_copy_to_user
   3.64%  [kernel]  [k] sifive_l2_flush64_range

after:
Overhead  Shared O  Symbol
  45.40%  [kernel]  [k] __asm_copy_to_user
  28.09%  [kernel]  [k] memcpy
   4.27%  [kernel]  [k] sifive_l2_flush64_range
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 89212e16
......@@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ static inline bool stmmac_xdp_is_enabled(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
static inline unsigned int stmmac_rx_offset(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
{
if (stmmac_xdp_is_enabled(priv))
return XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM;
return XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM + NET_IP_ALIGN;
return 0;
return NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN;
}
void stmmac_disable_rx_queue(struct stmmac_priv *priv, u32 queue);
......
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