Re: stmmac: Performance regression after commit aff3d9eff843 "net: stmmac: enable multiple buffers"

From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO
Date: Thu Mar 23 2017 - 06:51:33 EST


On 3/23/2017 11:48 AM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:
Hello

On 3/23/2017 11:20 AM, Corentin Labbe wrote:
I have a 4.21 QoS Core with 4 RX + 4 TX and detected no regression.
>Could you please share the iperf cmds you are using in order for me to reproduce
>in my side?

Joao, you have a really powerful HW integration with multiple channels for both RX and TX.
Often this is not the same for other setup where, usually just a DMA0 is present or, sometime, there
is just one RX extra channel.

My question is, what happens on this kind of configurations? Are we still guarantying the best performances?

Also we have to guarantee, that the TSO and SG are always working. Another point is the buffer sizes that
can be different among platforms.

The problem below reported by Corentin push me to think that there is a bug, so we should
understand when this has been introduced and if likely fixed by some configuration we are
not take care right now.

ndesc_get_rx_status: Oversized frame spanned multiple buffers"

I wonder if this could be easily triggered by getting a big file via FTP. So not properly related on performance benchs

peppe



Best Regards
Peppe