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net: enetc: take the MDIO lock only once per NAPI poll cycle
authorVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:18:13 +0000 (13:18 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:34:47 +0000 (13:34 -0800)
commit1714e06cdc0c01333b5f2f7cc2d7bb0b58183041
treea565f540392882952f51e85a77d7b389e5e5962d
parent81265a6b5de7dffb70a75f032057cc1a8182965c
net: enetc: take the MDIO lock only once per NAPI poll cycle

The workaround for the ENETC MDIO erratum caused a performance
degradation of 82 Kpps (seen with IP forwarding of two 1Gbps streams of
64B packets). This is due to excessive locking and unlocking in the fast
path, which can be avoided.

By taking the MDIO read-side lock only once per NAPI poll cycle, we are
able to regain 54 Kpps (65%) of the performance hit. The rest of the
performance degradation comes from the TX data path, but unfortunately
it doesn't look like we can optimize that away easily, even with
netdev_xmit_more(), there just isn't any skb batching done, to help with
taking the MDIO lock less often than once per packet.

We need to change the register accessor type for enetc_get_tx_tstamp,
because it now runs under the enetc_lock_mdio as per the new call path
detailed below:

enetc_msix
-> napi_schedule
   -> enetc_poll
      -> enetc_lock_mdio
      -> enetc_clean_tx_ring
         -> enetc_get_tx_tstamp
      -> enetc_clean_rx_ring
      -> enetc_unlock_mdio

Fixes: 7c708bd246cd ("enetc: Workaround for MDIO register access issue")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h