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authorJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>2017-09-07 08:05:52 -0400
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2017-10-09 14:27:42 -0700
commit95bc2fb4c6c7d23db6dc54a3d49bdbadb13c392b (patch)
tree8bbf967226baac7a9714f0942ea158f2b2e60074 /arch/sparc
parent11f29003d6376fb123b7c3779dba49bb56fb0815 (diff)
i40e/i40evf: bundle more descriptors when allocating buffers
Double the number of descriptors we'll bundle into one tail bump when receiving. Empirical testing has shown that we reduce CPU utilization and don't appear to reduce throughput or packet rate. 32 seems to be the sweet spot, as it's half the default polling budget, so we'd essentially reduce from 4 tail writes when polling down to 2. Increasing this up to 64 appears to have negative impacts as it may become possible that we don't bump the tail each time we get polled, which could cause a long delay between returning descriptors to the hardware. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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