Re: [PATCH net v3] net: ravb: Count packets instead of descriptors in GbEth RX path

[Paul Barker]

On 15/02/2024 16:03, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:12:04 +0000 Paul Barker wrote:
>> The units of "work done" in the RX path should be packets instead of
>> descriptors, as large packets can be spread over multiple descriptors.
> 
> FWIW one of y'all may also want to look into processing Tx completions
> before Rx. Tx completions can free memory which Rx can then consume.
> More efficient. Not to mention netconsole being able to reap Tx with
> budget of 0.

Thanks for the recommendation - I'll make this change as part of v3 of
the series "Improve GbEth performance on Renesas RZ/G2L and related
SoCs" [1] once we've completed gPTP testing.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240206091909.3191-1-paul.barker.ct@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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Paul Barker

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