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  1. 24 May, 2018 5 commits
    • Huy Nguyen's avatar
      net/dcb: Add dcbnl buffer attribute · e549f6f9
      Huy Nguyen authored 
      In this patch, we add dcbnl buffer attribute to allow user
change the NIC's buffer configuration such as priority
to buffer mapping and buffer size of individual buffer.

This attribute combined with pfc attribute allows advanced user to
fine tune the qos setting for specific priority queue. For example,
user can give dedicated buffer for one or more priorities or user
can give large buffer to certain priorities.

The dcb buffer configuration will be controlled by lldptool.
lldptool -T -i eth2 -V BUFFER prio 0,2,5,7,1,2,3,6
  maps priorities 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 to receive buffer 0,2,5,7,1,2,3,6
lldptool -T -i eth2 -V BUFFER size 87296,87296,0,87296,0,0,0,0
  sets receive buffer size for buffer 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 respectively

After discussion on mailing list with Jakub, Jiri, Ido and John, we agreed to
choose dcbnl over devlink interface since this feature is intended to set
port attributes which are governed by the netdev instance of that port, where
devlink API is more suitable for global ASIC configurations.

We present an use case scenario where dcbnl buffer attribute configured
by advance user helps reduce the latency of messages of different sizes.

Scenarios description:
On ConnectX-5, we run latency sensitive traffic with
small/medium message sizes ranging from 64B to 256KB and bandwidth sensitive
traffic with large messages sizes 512KB and 1MB. We group small, medium,
and large message sizes to their own pfc enables priorities as follow.
  Priorities 1 & 2 (64B, 256B and 1KB)
  Priorities 3 & 4 (4KB, 8KB, 16KB, 64KB, 128KB and 256KB)
  Priorities 5 & 6 (512KB and 1MB)

By default, ConnectX-5 maps all pfc enabled priorities to a single
lossless fixed buffer size of 50% of total available buffer space. The
other 50% is assigned to lossy buffer. Using dcbnl buffer attribute,
we create three equal size lossless buffers. Each buffer has 25% of total
available buffer space. Thus, the lossy buffer size reduces to 25%. Priority
to lossless  buffer mappings are set as follow.
  Priorities 1 & 2 on lossless buffer #1
  Priorities 3 & 4 on lossless buffer #2
  Priorities 5 & 6 on lossless buffer #3

We observe improvements in latency for small and medium message sizes
as follows. Please note that the large message sizes bandwidth performance is
reduced but the total bandwidth remains the same.
  256B message size (42 % latency reduction)
  4K message size (21% latency reduction)
  64K message size (16% latency reduction)

CC: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
CC: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
CC: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
CC: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
CC: Aron Silverton <aron.silverton@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHuy Nguyen <huyn@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarParav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
      e549f6f9
    • Heiner Kallweit's avatar
      net: phy: replace bool members in struct phy_device with bit-fields · 87e5808d
      Heiner Kallweit authored 
      In struct phy_device we have a number of flags being defined as type
bool. Similar to e.g. struct pci_dev we can save some space by using
bit-fields.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      87e5808d
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge tag 'batadv-next-for-davem-20180524' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge · 5c352421
      David S. Miller authored 
      Simon Wunderlich says:

====================
This feature/cleanup patchset includes the following patches:

 - bump version strings, by Simon Wunderlich

 - Disable batman-adv debugfs by default, by Sven Eckelmann

 - Improve handling mesh nodes with multicast optimizations disabled,
   by Linus Luessing

 - Avoid bool in structs, by Sven Eckelmann

 - Allocate less memory when debugfs is disabled, by Sven Eckelmann

 - Fix batadv_interface_tx return data type, by Luc Van Oostenryck

 - improve link speed handling for virtual interfaces, by Marek Lindner

 - Enable BATMAN V algorithm by default, by Marek Lindner
====================
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      5c352421
    • Jakub Kicinski's avatar
      bpfilter: don't pass O_CREAT when opening console for debug · 13405468
      Jakub Kicinski authored 
      Passing O_CREAT (00000100) to open means we should also pass file
mode as the third parameter.  Creating /dev/console as a regular
file may not be helpful anyway, so simply drop the flag when
opening debug_fd.

Fixes: d2ba09c1 ("net: add skeleton of bpfilter kernel module")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      13405468
    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      bpfilter: fix build dependency · 61a552eb
      Alexei Starovoitov authored 
      BPFILTER could have been enabled without INET causing this build error:
ERROR: "bpfilter_process_sockopt" [net/bpfilter/bpfilter.ko] undefined!

Fixes: d2ba09c1 ("net: add skeleton of bpfilter kernel module")
Reported-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      61a552eb
  3. 23 May, 2018 35 commits
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