tp->rx_buf_sz is set according to the specific version of HW being used.
agg_buf_sz was originally added to support LSO (Large Send Offload) and then seems to have been co-opted for LRO (Large Receive Offload). But RX large buffer size can be larger than TX large buffer size with newer HW. Using larger buffers can result in fewer "large RX packets" processed by the rest of the networking stack to reduce RX CPU utilization. This patch is copied from the r8152 driver (v2.12.0) published by Realtek (www.realtek.com). Signed-off-by: Prashant Malani <pmal...@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grund...@chromium.org> --- drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c index 0cc03a9ff545..d221e59a5392 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c @@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ struct r8152 { u32 tx_qlen; u32 coalesce; u16 ocp_base; + u32 rx_buf_sz; u16 speed; u8 *intr_buff; u8 version; @@ -1516,13 +1517,13 @@ static int alloc_all_mem(struct r8152 *tp) skb_queue_head_init(&tp->rx_queue); for (i = 0; i < RTL8152_MAX_RX; i++) { - buf = kmalloc_node(agg_buf_sz, GFP_KERNEL, node); + buf = kmalloc_node(tp->rx_buf_sz, GFP_KERNEL, node); if (!buf) goto err1; if (buf != rx_agg_align(buf)) { kfree(buf); - buf = kmalloc_node(agg_buf_sz + RX_ALIGN, GFP_KERNEL, + buf = kmalloc_node(tp->rx_buf_sz + RX_ALIGN, GFP_KERNEL, node); if (!buf) goto err1; @@ -2113,7 +2114,7 @@ int r8152_submit_rx(struct r8152 *tp, struct rx_agg *agg, gfp_t mem_flags) return 0; usb_fill_bulk_urb(agg->urb, tp->udev, usb_rcvbulkpipe(tp->udev, 1), - agg->head, agg_buf_sz, + agg->head, tp->rx_buf_sz, (usb_complete_t)read_bulk_callback, agg); ret = usb_submit_urb(agg->urb, mem_flags); @@ -2447,7 +2448,7 @@ static void r8153_set_rx_early_timeout(struct r8152 *tp) static void r8153_set_rx_early_size(struct r8152 *tp) { - u32 ocp_data = agg_buf_sz - rx_reserved_size(tp->netdev->mtu); + u32 ocp_data = tp->rx_buf_sz - rx_reserved_size(tp->netdev->mtu); switch (tp->version) { case RTL_VER_03: @@ -5115,6 +5116,7 @@ static int rtl_ops_init(struct r8152 *tp) ops->in_nway = rtl8152_in_nway; ops->hw_phy_cfg = r8152b_hw_phy_cfg; ops->autosuspend_en = rtl_runtime_suspend_enable; + tp->rx_buf_sz = 16 * 1024; break; case RTL_VER_03: @@ -5132,6 +5134,7 @@ static int rtl_ops_init(struct r8152 *tp) ops->in_nway = rtl8153_in_nway; ops->hw_phy_cfg = r8153_hw_phy_cfg; ops->autosuspend_en = rtl8153_runtime_enable; + tp->rx_buf_sz = 32 * 1024; break; case RTL_VER_08: @@ -5147,6 +5150,7 @@ static int rtl_ops_init(struct r8152 *tp) ops->in_nway = rtl8153_in_nway; ops->hw_phy_cfg = r8153b_hw_phy_cfg; ops->autosuspend_en = rtl8153b_runtime_enable; + tp->rx_buf_sz = 32 * 1024; break; default: -- 2.23.0.187.g17f5b7556c-goog