On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 22:42:01 +0800 Sieng Piaw Liew wrote: > This patch series aim to improve the bcm63xx_enet driver by integrating the > latest networking features, i.e. batched rx processing, BQL, build_skb, > etc. > > The newer enetsw SoCs are found to be able to do unaligned rx DMA by adding > NET_IP_ALIGN padding which, combined with these patches, improved packet > processing performance by ~50% on BCM6328. > > Older non-enetsw SoCs still benefit mainly from rx batching. Performance > improvement of ~30% is observed on BCM6333. > > The BCM63xx SoCs are designed for routers. As such, having BQL is > beneficial as well as trivial to add. > > v3: > * Simplify xmit_more patch by not moving around the code needlessly. > * Fix indentation in xmit_more patch. > * Fix indentation in build_skb patch. > * Split rx ring cleanup patch from build_skb patch and precede build_skb > patch for better understanding, as suggested by Florian Fainelli. > > v2: > * Add xmit_more support and rx loop improvisation patches. > * Moved BQL netdev_reset_queue() to bcm_enet_stop()/bcm_enetsw_stop() > functions as suggested by Florian Fainelli. > * Improved commit messages.
Applied, thanks!
