This patch removes pre-allocated transmit buffers and instead directly maps
pending packets on demand. This saves O(n^2) maximum-sized transmit buffers,
for n hosts on a vswitch, as well as a copy to those buffers.
Single-stream TCP throughput linux-solaris dropped ~5% for 1500-byte MTU,
but linux-linux at 1500-bytes increased ~20%.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch upgrades the sunvnet driver to support VIO protocol version 1.6.
In particular, it adds per-port MTU negotiation, allowing MTUs other than
ETH_FRAMELEN with ports using newer VIO protocol versions.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When sending out a burst of packets across multiple descriptors,
it is sufficient to send one LDC "start" trigger for
the first descriptor, so do not send an LDC "start" for every
pass through vnet_start_xmit. Similarly, it is sufficient to send
one "DRING_STOPPED" trigger for the last dring (and if that
fails, hold off and send the trigger later).
Optimizations to the number of LDC messages helps avoid
filling up the LDC channel with superfluous LDC messages
that risk triggering flow-control on the channel,
and also boosts performance.
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Raghuram Kothakota <raghuram.kothakota@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
At the tail of vnet_event(), if we hit the maybe_tx_wakeup()
condition, we try to take the netif_tx_lock() in the
recv-interrupt-context and can deadlock with dev_watchdog().
vnet_event() should schedule maybe_tx_wakeup() as a tasklet
to avoid this deadlock
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Moves the Sun drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/sun/ and make
the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.
Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> suggested removing the
sun* prefix on the driver names. This type of change I will
leave up to the driver maintainers.
CC: Sam Creasey <sammy@sammy.net>
CC: Adrian Sun <asun@darksunrising.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenscmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
