From: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesve...@gmail.com> To support jumbo frames, each rx ring dma buffer is 9K in size. But the chip only stores a single frame per dma buffer.
When the chip is working with the default 1500 byte MTU, a 9K dma buffer goes from chip -> cpu per 1500 byte frame. This means that to get 1G/s ethernet bandwidth, we need 6G/s PCIe bandwidth ! Fix by limiting the rx ring dma buffer size to the current MTU size. Tested with iperf3 on a freescale imx6 + lan7430, both sides set to mtu 1500 bytes. Before: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr [ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 483 MBytes 203 Mbits/sec 0 After: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr [ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 1.15 GBytes 496 Mbits/sec 0 And with both sides set to MTU 9000 bytes: Before: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr [ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 1.87 GBytes 803 Mbits/sec 27 After: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr [ 4] 0.00-20.00 sec 1.98 GBytes 849 Mbits/sec 0 Tested-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesve...@gmail.com> # lan7430 Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesve...@gmail.com> --- Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git # 905b2032fa42 To: Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whiteh...@microchip.com> To: Microchip Linux Driver Support <unglinuxdri...@microchip.com> To: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> To: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c | 21 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c index ebb5e0bc516b..2bded1c46784 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c @@ -1957,11 +1957,11 @@ static int lan743x_rx_next_index(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index) static struct sk_buff *lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(struct lan743x_rx *rx) { - int length = 0; + struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev; - length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING); - return __netdev_alloc_skb(rx->adapter->netdev, - length, GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA); + return __netdev_alloc_skb(netdev, + netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING, + GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA); } static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index, @@ -1969,9 +1969,10 @@ static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index, { struct lan743x_rx_buffer_info *buffer_info; struct lan743x_rx_descriptor *descriptor; - int length = 0; + struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev; + int length; - length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING); + length = netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING; descriptor = &rx->ring_cpu_ptr[index]; buffer_info = &rx->buffer_info[index]; buffer_info->skb = skb; @@ -2157,8 +2158,8 @@ static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx *rx) int index = first_index; /* multi buffer packet not supported */ - /* this should not happen since - * buffers are allocated to be at least jumbo size + /* this should not happen since buffers are allocated + * to be at least the mtu size configured in the mac. */ /* clean up buffers */ @@ -2632,9 +2633,13 @@ static int lan743x_netdev_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu) struct lan743x_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev); int ret = 0; + if (netif_running(netdev)) + return -EBUSY; + ret = lan743x_mac_set_mtu(adapter, new_mtu); if (!ret) netdev->mtu = new_mtu; + return ret; } -- 2.17.1