Re: [PATCH net-next] net: microchip: lan743x : bidirectional throughput improvement

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
Date: Mon Nov 20 2023 - 21:00:33 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:13:50 +0530 you wrote:
> The LAN743x/PCI11xxx DMA descriptors are always 4 dwords long, but the
> device supports placing the descriptors in memory back to back or
> reserving space in between them using its DMA_DESCRIPTOR_SPACE (DSPACE)
> configurable hardware setting. Currently DSPACE is unnecessarily set to
> match the host's L1 cache line size, resulting in space reserved in
> between descriptors in most platforms and causing a suboptimal behavior
> (single PCIe Mem transaction per descriptor). By changing the setting
> to DSPACE=16 many descriptors can be packed in a single PCIe Mem
> transaction resulting in a massive performance improvement in
> bidirectional tests without any negative effects.
> Tested and verified improvements on x64 PC and several ARM platforms
> (typical data below)
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net-next] net: microchip: lan743x : bidirectional throughput improvement
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/45933b2db91b

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