linux/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox
Eric Dumazet 01f0f42534 mlx4: do not fire tasklet unless necessary
All rx and rx netdev interrupts are handled by respectively
by mlx4_en_rx_irq() and mlx4_en_tx_irq() which simply schedule a NAPI.

But mlx4_eq_int() also fires a tasklet to service all items that were
queued via mlx4_add_cq_to_tasklet(), but this handler was not called
unless user cqe was handled.

This is very confusing, as "mpstat -I SCPU ..." show huge number of
tasklet invocations.

This patch saves this overhead, by carefully firing the tasklet directly
from mlx4_add_cq_to_tasklet(), removing four atomic operations per IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-17 10:55:22 -05:00
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mlx4 mlx4: do not fire tasklet unless necessary 2017-02-17 10:55:22 -05:00
mlx5/core Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-02-16 19:34:01 -05:00
mlxsw mlxsw: acl: Use PBS type for forward action 2017-02-15 13:23:20 -05:00
Kconfig mlxsw: Introduce Mellanox switch driver core 2015-07-30 00:04:59 -07:00
Makefile mlxsw: Introduce Mellanox switch driver core 2015-07-30 00:04:59 -07:00