Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] can: m_can: Optimizations for m_can/tcan part 2

[Markus Schneider-Pargmann]

Hi Marc,

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:12:50PM +0200, Markus Schneider-Pargmann wrote:
> Hi Marc, Simon, Martin and everyone,
> 
> v6 is a rebase on v6.6. As there was a conflicting change merged for
> v6.6 which introduced irq polling, I had to modify the patches that
> touch the hrtimer.

Did you have some time to have a look at this series? Anything I should
change?

Thanks!

Best,
Markus

> 
> @Simon: I removed a couple of your reviewed-by tags because of the
> changes.
> 
> @Martin: as the functionality changed, I did not apply your Tested-by
> tag as I may have introduced new bugs with the changes.
> 
> The series implements many small and bigger throughput improvements and
> adds rx/tx coalescing at the end.
> 
> Based on v6.6-rc2. Also available at
> https://gitlab.baylibre.com/msp8/linux/-/tree/topic/mcan-optimization/v6.6?ref_type=heads
> 
> Best,
> Markus
> 
> Changes in v6:
> - Rebased to v6.6-rc2
> - Added two small changes for the newly integrated polling feature
> - Reuse the polling hrtimer for coalescing as the timer used for
>   coalescing has a similar purpose as the one for polling. Also polling
>   and coalescing will never be active at the same time.
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - Add back parenthesis in m_can_set_coalesce(). This will make
>   checkpatch unhappy but gcc happy.
> - Remove unused fifo_header variable in m_can_tx_handler().
> - Rebased to v6.5-rc1
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Create and use struct m_can_fifo_element in m_can_tx_handler
> - Fix memcpy_and_pad to copy the full buffer
> - Fixed a few checkpatch warnings
> - Change putidx to be unsigned
> - Print hard_xmit error only once when TX FIFO is full
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Remove parenthesis in error messages
> - Use memcpy_and_pad for buffer copy in 'can: m_can: Write transmit
>   header and data in one transaction'.
> - Replace spin_lock with spin_lock_irqsave. I got a report of a
>   interrupt that was calling start_xmit just after the netqueue was
>   woken up before the locked region was exited. spin_lock_irqsave should
>   fix this. I attached the full stack at the end of the mail if someone
>   wants to know.
> - Rebased to v6.3-rc1.
> - Removed tcan4x5x patches from this series.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Rebased on v6.2-rc5
> - Fixed missing/broken accounting for non peripheral m_can devices.
> 
> previous versions:
> v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221221152537.751564-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230125195059.630377-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> v3 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315110546.2518305-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> v4 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230621092350.3130866-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> v5 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230718075708.958094-1-msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Markus Schneider-Pargmann (14):
>   can: m_can: Start/Cancel polling timer together with interrupts
>   can: m_can: Move hrtimer init to m_can_class_register
>   can: m_can: Write transmit header and data in one transaction
>   can: m_can: Implement receive coalescing
>   can: m_can: Implement transmit coalescing
>   can: m_can: Add rx coalescing ethtool support
>   can: m_can: Add tx coalescing ethtool support
>   can: m_can: Use u32 for putidx
>   can: m_can: Cache tx putidx
>   can: m_can: Use the workqueue as queue
>   can: m_can: Introduce a tx_fifo_in_flight counter
>   can: m_can: Use tx_fifo_in_flight for netif_queue control
>   can: m_can: Implement BQL
>   can: m_can: Implement transmit submission coalescing
> 
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c          | 559 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.h          |  34 +-
>  drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c |   4 -
>  3 files changed, 447 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: ce9ecca0238b140b88f43859b211c9fdfd8e5b70
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> 2.40.1
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