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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: Shay Agroskin <shayag@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.