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[net,v1,2/2] lan743x: boost performance: limit PCIe bandwidth requirement

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Sven Van Asbroeck Dec. 6, 2020, 3:44 a.m. UTC
From: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>

To support jumbo frames, each rx ring dma buffer is 9K in size.
But the chip only stores a single frame per dma buffer.

When the chip is working with the default 1500 byte MTU, a 9K
dma buffer goes from chip -> cpu per 1500 byte frame. This means
that to get 1G/s ethernet bandwidth, we need 6G/s PCIe bandwidth !

Fix by limiting the rx ring dma buffer size to the current MTU
size.

Tested with iperf3 on a freescale imx6 + lan7430, both sides
set to mtu 1500 bytes.

Before:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-20.00  sec   483 MBytes   203 Mbits/sec    0
After:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.15 GBytes   496 Mbits/sec    0

And with both sides set to MTU 9000 bytes:
Before:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.87 GBytes   803 Mbits/sec   27
After:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.98 GBytes   849 Mbits/sec    0

Tested-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com> # lan7430
Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
---

Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git # 905b2032fa42

To: Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whitehead@microchip.com>
To: Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c | 21 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Comments

Jakub Kicinski Dec. 8, 2020, 7:43 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat,  5 Dec 2020 22:44:08 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> From: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
> 
> To support jumbo frames, each rx ring dma buffer is 9K in size.
> But the chip only stores a single frame per dma buffer.
> 
> When the chip is working with the default 1500 byte MTU, a 9K
> dma buffer goes from chip -> cpu per 1500 byte frame. This means
> that to get 1G/s ethernet bandwidth, we need 6G/s PCIe bandwidth !
> 
> Fix by limiting the rx ring dma buffer size to the current MTU
> size.

I'd guess this is a memory allocate issue, not a bandwidth thing.
for 9K frames the driver needs to do order-2 allocations of 16K.
For 1500 2K allocations are sufficient (which is < 1 page, hence 
a lot cheaper).

> Tested with iperf3 on a freescale imx6 + lan7430, both sides
> set to mtu 1500 bytes.
> 
> Before:
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec   483 MBytes   203 Mbits/sec    0
> After:
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.15 GBytes   496 Mbits/sec    0
> 
> And with both sides set to MTU 9000 bytes:
> Before:
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.87 GBytes   803 Mbits/sec   27
> After:
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.98 GBytes   849 Mbits/sec    0
> 
> Tested-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com> # lan7430
> Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>

This is a performance improvement, not a fix, it really needs to target
net-next.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
> index ebb5e0bc516b..2bded1c46784 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
> @@ -1957,11 +1957,11 @@ static int lan743x_rx_next_index(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index)
>  
>  static struct sk_buff *lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
>  {
> -	int length = 0;
> +	struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev;
>  
> -	length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
> -	return __netdev_alloc_skb(rx->adapter->netdev,
> -				  length, GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
> +	return __netdev_alloc_skb(netdev,
> +				  netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING,
> +				  GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
>  }
>  
>  static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index,
> @@ -1969,9 +1969,10 @@ static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index,
>  {
>  	struct lan743x_rx_buffer_info *buffer_info;
>  	struct lan743x_rx_descriptor *descriptor;
> -	int length = 0;
> +	struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev;
> +	int length;
>  
> -	length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
> +	length = netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING;
>  	descriptor = &rx->ring_cpu_ptr[index];
>  	buffer_info = &rx->buffer_info[index];
>  	buffer_info->skb = skb;
> @@ -2157,8 +2158,8 @@ static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
>  			int index = first_index;
>  
>  			/* multi buffer packet not supported */
> -			/* this should not happen since
> -			 * buffers are allocated to be at least jumbo size
> +			/* this should not happen since buffers are allocated
> +			 * to be at least the mtu size configured in the mac.
>  			 */
>  
>  			/* clean up buffers */
> @@ -2632,9 +2633,13 @@ static int lan743x_netdev_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
>  	struct lan743x_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
> +	if (netif_running(netdev))
> +		return -EBUSY;

That may cause a regression to users of the driver who expect to be
able to set the MTU when the device is running. You need to disable 
the NAPI, pause the device, swap the buffers for smaller / bigger ones
and restart the device.

>  	ret = lan743x_mac_set_mtu(adapter, new_mtu);
>  	if (!ret)
>  		netdev->mtu = new_mtu;
> +
>  	return ret;
>  }
>
Sven Van Asbroeck Dec. 8, 2020, 9:54 p.m. UTC | #2
Hi Jakub, thank you so much for reviewing this patchset !

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:43 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > When the chip is working with the default 1500 byte MTU, a 9K
> > dma buffer goes from chip -> cpu per 1500 byte frame. This means
> > that to get 1G/s ethernet bandwidth, we need 6G/s PCIe bandwidth !
> >
> > Fix by limiting the rx ring dma buffer size to the current MTU
> > size.
>
> I'd guess this is a memory allocate issue, not a bandwidth thing.
> for 9K frames the driver needs to do order-2 allocations of 16K.
> For 1500 2K allocations are sufficient (which is < 1 page, hence
> a lot cheaper).

That's a good question. I used perf to create a flame graph of what
the cpu was doing when receiving data at high speed. It showed that
__dma_page_dev_to_cpu took up most of the cpu time. Which is triggered
by dma_unmap_single(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE).

So I assumed that it's a PCIe dma bandwidth issue, but I could be wrong -
I didn't do any PCIe bandwidth measurements.

>
> > Tested with iperf3 on a freescale imx6 + lan7430, both sides
> > set to mtu 1500 bytes.
> >
> > Before:
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec   483 MBytes   203 Mbits/sec    0
> > After:
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.15 GBytes   496 Mbits/sec    0
> >
> > And with both sides set to MTU 9000 bytes:
> > Before:
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.87 GBytes   803 Mbits/sec   27
> > After:
> > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.98 GBytes   849 Mbits/sec    0
> >
> > Tested-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com> # lan7430
> > Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
>
> This is a performance improvement, not a fix, it really needs to target
> net-next.

I thought it'd be cool if 'historic' kernels could benefit from this performance
improvement too, but yeah if it's against policy it should go into net-next.

What about the other patch in the patchset (ping-pong). Should it go into
net-next as well?

>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
> > index ebb5e0bc516b..2bded1c46784 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
> > @@ -1957,11 +1957,11 @@ static int lan743x_rx_next_index(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index)
> >
> >  static struct sk_buff *lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
> >  {
> > -     int length = 0;
> > +     struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev;
> >
> > -     length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
> > -     return __netdev_alloc_skb(rx->adapter->netdev,
> > -                               length, GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
> > +     return __netdev_alloc_skb(netdev,
> > +                               netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING,
> > +                               GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
> >  }
> >
> >  static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index,
> > @@ -1969,9 +1969,10 @@ static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index,
> >  {
> >       struct lan743x_rx_buffer_info *buffer_info;
> >       struct lan743x_rx_descriptor *descriptor;
> > -     int length = 0;
> > +     struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev;
> > +     int length;
> >
> > -     length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
> > +     length = netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING;
> >       descriptor = &rx->ring_cpu_ptr[index];
> >       buffer_info = &rx->buffer_info[index];
> >       buffer_info->skb = skb;
> > @@ -2157,8 +2158,8 @@ static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
> >                       int index = first_index;
> >
> >                       /* multi buffer packet not supported */
> > -                     /* this should not happen since
> > -                      * buffers are allocated to be at least jumbo size
> > +                     /* this should not happen since buffers are allocated
> > +                      * to be at least the mtu size configured in the mac.
> >                        */
> >
> >                       /* clean up buffers */
> > @@ -2632,9 +2633,13 @@ static int lan743x_netdev_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
> >       struct lan743x_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
> >       int ret = 0;
> >
> > +     if (netif_running(netdev))
> > +             return -EBUSY;
>
> That may cause a regression to users of the driver who expect to be
> able to set the MTU when the device is running. You need to disable
> the NAPI, pause the device, swap the buffers for smaller / bigger ones
> and restart the device.

That's what I tried first, but I quickly ran into a spot of trouble:
restarting the device may fail (unlikely but possible). So when the user tries
to change the mtu and that errors out, they might end up with a stopped device.
Is that acceptable behaviour? If so, I'll add it to the patch.

>
> >       ret = lan743x_mac_set_mtu(adapter, new_mtu);
> >       if (!ret)
> >               netdev->mtu = new_mtu;
> > +
> >       return ret;
> >  }
> >
>
Andrew Lunn Dec. 8, 2020, 10:51 p.m. UTC | #3
> That's a good question. I used perf to create a flame graph of what
> the cpu was doing when receiving data at high speed. It showed that
> __dma_page_dev_to_cpu took up most of the cpu time. Which is triggered
> by dma_unmap_single(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE).
> 
> So I assumed that it's a PCIe dma bandwidth issue, but I could be wrong -
> I didn't do any PCIe bandwidth measurements.

Sometimes it is actually cache operations which take all the
time. This needs to invalidate the cache, so that when the memory is
then accessed, it get fetched from RAM. On SMP machines, cache
invalidation can be expensive, due to all the cross CPU operations.
I've actually got better performance by building a UP kernel on some
low core count ARM CPUs.

There are some tricks which can be played. Do you actually need all
9K? Does the descriptor tell you actually how much is used? You can
get a nice speed up if you just unmap 64 bytes for a TCP ACK, rather
than the full 9K.

     Andrew
Sven Van Asbroeck Dec. 8, 2020, 11:02 p.m. UTC | #4
Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 5:51 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> >
> > So I assumed that it's a PCIe dma bandwidth issue, but I could be wrong -
> > I didn't do any PCIe bandwidth measurements.
>
> Sometimes it is actually cache operations which take all the
> time. This needs to invalidate the cache, so that when the memory is
> then accessed, it get fetched from RAM. On SMP machines, cache
> invalidation can be expensive, due to all the cross CPU operations.
> I've actually got better performance by building a UP kernel on some
> low core count ARM CPUs.
>
> There are some tricks which can be played. Do you actually need all
> 9K? Does the descriptor tell you actually how much is used? You can
> get a nice speed up if you just unmap 64 bytes for a TCP ACK, rather
> than the full 9K.
>

Thank you for the suggestion! The original driver developer chose 9K because
presumably that's the largest frame size supported by the chip.

Yes, I believe the chip will tell us via the descriptor how much it has
written, I would have to double-check. I was already looking for a
"trick" to transfer only the required number of bytes, but I was led to
believe that dma_map_single() and dma_unmap_single() always needed to match.

So:
dma_map_single(9K) followed by dma_unmap_single(9K) is correct, and
dma_map_single(9K) followed by dma_unmap_single(1500 bytes) means trouble.

How can we get around that?
Jakub Kicinski Dec. 8, 2020, 11:07 p.m. UTC | #5
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:02:30 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 5:51 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > > So I assumed that it's a PCIe dma bandwidth issue, but I could be wrong -
> > > I didn't do any PCIe bandwidth measurements.  
> >
> > Sometimes it is actually cache operations which take all the
> > time. This needs to invalidate the cache, so that when the memory is
> > then accessed, it get fetched from RAM. On SMP machines, cache
> > invalidation can be expensive, due to all the cross CPU operations.
> > I've actually got better performance by building a UP kernel on some
> > low core count ARM CPUs.
> >
> > There are some tricks which can be played. Do you actually need all
> > 9K? Does the descriptor tell you actually how much is used? You can
> > get a nice speed up if you just unmap 64 bytes for a TCP ACK, rather
> > than the full 9K.

Good point!

> Thank you for the suggestion! The original driver developer chose 9K because
> presumably that's the largest frame size supported by the chip.
> 
> Yes, I believe the chip will tell us via the descriptor how much it has
> written, I would have to double-check. I was already looking for a
> "trick" to transfer only the required number of bytes, but I was led to
> believe that dma_map_single() and dma_unmap_single() always needed to match.
> 
> So:
> dma_map_single(9K) followed by dma_unmap_single(9K) is correct, and
> dma_map_single(9K) followed by dma_unmap_single(1500 bytes) means trouble.
> 
> How can we get around that?

You can set DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC and then sync only the part of the
buffer that got written.
Jakub Kicinski Dec. 8, 2020, 11:13 p.m. UTC | #6
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 16:54:33 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> > > Tested with iperf3 on a freescale imx6 + lan7430, both sides
> > > set to mtu 1500 bytes.
> > >
> > > Before:
> > > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec   483 MBytes   203 Mbits/sec    0
> > > After:
> > > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.15 GBytes   496 Mbits/sec    0
> > >
> > > And with both sides set to MTU 9000 bytes:
> > > Before:
> > > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.87 GBytes   803 Mbits/sec   27
> > > After:
> > > [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
> > > [  4]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.98 GBytes   849 Mbits/sec    0
> > >
> > > Tested-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com> # lan7430
> > > Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>  
> >
> > This is a performance improvement, not a fix, it really needs to target
> > net-next.  
> 
> I thought it'd be cool if 'historic' kernels could benefit from this performance
> improvement too, but yeah if it's against policy it should go into net-next.
> 
> What about the other patch in the patchset (ping-pong). Should it go into
> net-next as well?

The jury is out on that one. Using ring size for netif_napi_add() 
and updating RX_TAIL at the end of NAPI is pretty broken. So that
one can qualify as a fix IMHO.

> > > @@ -2632,9 +2633,13 @@ static int lan743x_netdev_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
> > >       struct lan743x_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > >       int ret = 0;
> > >
> > > +     if (netif_running(netdev))
> > > +             return -EBUSY;  
> >
> > That may cause a regression to users of the driver who expect to be
> > able to set the MTU when the device is running. You need to disable
> > the NAPI, pause the device, swap the buffers for smaller / bigger ones
> > and restart the device.  
> 
> That's what I tried first, but I quickly ran into a spot of trouble:
> restarting the device may fail (unlikely but possible). So when the user tries
> to change the mtu and that errors out, they might end up with a stopped device.
> Is that acceptable behaviour? If so, I'll add it to the patch.

Fail because of memory allocation failures?

The best way to work around that is to allocate all the memory for new
configuration before you free the old memory. This also makes the
change a lot less disturbing to the traffic because you can do all the
allocations before the device is disabled, do the swap, start the
device, and then free the old set.
Florian Fainelli Dec. 8, 2020, 11:36 p.m. UTC | #7
On 12/8/20 3:02 PM, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 5:51 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So I assumed that it's a PCIe dma bandwidth issue, but I could be wrong -
>>> I didn't do any PCIe bandwidth measurements.
>>
>> Sometimes it is actually cache operations which take all the
>> time. This needs to invalidate the cache, so that when the memory is
>> then accessed, it get fetched from RAM. On SMP machines, cache
>> invalidation can be expensive, due to all the cross CPU operations.
>> I've actually got better performance by building a UP kernel on some
>> low core count ARM CPUs.
>>
>> There are some tricks which can be played. Do you actually need all
>> 9K? Does the descriptor tell you actually how much is used? You can
>> get a nice speed up if you just unmap 64 bytes for a TCP ACK, rather
>> than the full 9K.
>>
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion! The original driver developer chose 9K because
> presumably that's the largest frame size supported by the chip.
> 
> Yes, I believe the chip will tell us via the descriptor how much it has
> written, I would have to double-check. I was already looking for a
> "trick" to transfer only the required number of bytes, but I was led to
> believe that dma_map_single() and dma_unmap_single() always needed to match.
> 
> So:
> dma_map_single(9K) followed by dma_unmap_single(9K) is correct, and
> dma_map_single(9K) followed by dma_unmap_single(1500 bytes) means trouble.
> 
> How can we get around that?

dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device} is what you would need in order to make
a partial cache line invalidation. You would still need to unmap the
same address+length pair that was used for the initial mapping otherwise
the DMA-API debugging will rightfully complain.
Andrew Lunn Dec. 9, 2020, 1:22 a.m. UTC | #8
> dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device} is what you would need in order to make
> a partial cache line invalidation. You would still need to unmap the
> same address+length pair that was used for the initial mapping otherwise
> the DMA-API debugging will rightfully complain.

But often you don't unmap it, you call dma_sync_single_for_device and
put it back into the ring.

    Andrew
Sven Van Asbroeck Dec. 9, 2020, 3:49 a.m. UTC | #9
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:36 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device} is what you would need in order to make
> a partial cache line invalidation. You would still need to unmap the
> same address+length pair that was used for the initial mapping otherwise
> the DMA-API debugging will rightfully complain.

I tried replacing
    dma_unmap_single(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
with
    dma_sync_single_for_cpu(received_size=1500 bytes, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
    dma_unmap_single_attrs(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);

and that works! But the bandwidth is still pretty bad, because the cpu
now spends most of its time doing
    dma_map_single(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
which spends a lot of time doing __dma_page_cpu_to_dev.

When I try and replace that with
    dma_map_single_attrs(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
Then I get lots of dropped packets, which seems to indicate data corruption.

Interestingly, when I do
    dma_map_single_attrs(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
    dma_sync_single_for_{cpu|device}(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
then the dropped packets disappear, but things are still very slow.

What am I missing?
Andrew Lunn Dec. 9, 2020, 2:09 p.m. UTC | #10
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:49:16PM -0500, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:36 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device} is what you would need in order to make
> > a partial cache line invalidation. You would still need to unmap the
> > same address+length pair that was used for the initial mapping otherwise
> > the DMA-API debugging will rightfully complain.
> 
> I tried replacing
>     dma_unmap_single(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> with
>     dma_sync_single_for_cpu(received_size=1500 bytes, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>     dma_unmap_single_attrs(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
> 
> and that works! But the bandwidth is still pretty bad, because the cpu
> now spends most of its time doing
>     dma_map_single(9K, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
> which spends a lot of time doing __dma_page_cpu_to_dev.

9K is not a nice number, since for each allocation it probably has to
find 4 contiguous pages. See what the performance difference is with
2K, 4K and 8K. If there is a big difference, you might want to special
case when the MTU is set for jumbo packets, or check if the hardware
can do scatter/gather.

You also need to be careful with caches and speculation. As you have
seen, bad things can happen. And it can be a lot more subtle. If some
code is accessing the page before the buffer and gets towards the end
of the page, the CPU might speculatively bring in the next page, i.e
the start of the buffer. If that happens before the DMA operation, and
you don't invalidate the cache correctly, you get hard to find
corruption.

    Andrew
Sven Van Asbroeck Dec. 17, 2020, 12:57 a.m. UTC | #11
Hi Andrew,

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:10 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> 9K is not a nice number, since for each allocation it probably has to
> find 4 contiguous pages. See what the performance difference is with
> 2K, 4K and 8K. If there is a big difference, you might want to special
> case when the MTU is set for jumbo packets, or check if the hardware
> can do scatter/gather.
>
> You also need to be careful with caches and speculation. As you have
> seen, bad things can happen. And it can be a lot more subtle. If some
> code is accessing the page before the buffer and gets towards the end
> of the page, the CPU might speculatively bring in the next page, i.e
> the start of the buffer. If that happens before the DMA operation, and
> you don't invalidate the cache correctly, you get hard to find
> corruption.

Thank you for the guidance. When I keep the 9K buffers, and sync
only the buffer space that is being used (mtu when mapping, received
packet size when unmapping), then there is no more corruption, and
performance improves. But setting the buffer size to the mtu size
still provides much better performance. I do not understand why
(yet).

It seems that caching and dma behaviour/performance on arm32
(armv7) is very different compared to x86.
Florian Fainelli Dec. 17, 2020, 1:01 a.m. UTC | #12
On 12/16/20 4:57 PM, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:10 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>>
>> 9K is not a nice number, since for each allocation it probably has to
>> find 4 contiguous pages. See what the performance difference is with
>> 2K, 4K and 8K. If there is a big difference, you might want to special
>> case when the MTU is set for jumbo packets, or check if the hardware
>> can do scatter/gather.
>>
>> You also need to be careful with caches and speculation. As you have
>> seen, bad things can happen. And it can be a lot more subtle. If some
>> code is accessing the page before the buffer and gets towards the end
>> of the page, the CPU might speculatively bring in the next page, i.e
>> the start of the buffer. If that happens before the DMA operation, and
>> you don't invalidate the cache correctly, you get hard to find
>> corruption.
> 
> Thank you for the guidance. When I keep the 9K buffers, and sync
> only the buffer space that is being used (mtu when mapping, received
> packet size when unmapping), then there is no more corruption, and
> performance improves. But setting the buffer size to the mtu size
> still provides much better performance. I do not understand why
> (yet).
> 
> It seems that caching and dma behaviour/performance on arm32
> (armv7) is very different compared to x86.

x86 is a fully cache and device coherent memory architecture and there
are smarts like DDIO to bring freshly DMA'd data into the L3 cache
directly. For ARMv7, it depends on the hardware you have, most ARMv7
SoCs do not have hardware maintained coherency at all, this means that
doing the cache maintenance operations is costly. This is even true on
platforms that use an external cache controller (PL310).
Sven Van Asbroeck Dec. 17, 2020, 3:18 a.m. UTC | #13
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 8:01 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> x86 is a fully cache and device coherent memory architecture and there
> are smarts like DDIO to bring freshly DMA'd data into the L3 cache
> directly. For ARMv7, it depends on the hardware you have, most ARMv7
> SoCs do not have hardware maintained coherency at all, this means that
> doing the cache maintenance operations is costly. This is even true on
> platforms that use an external cache controller (PL310).

Thank you, that's quite fascinating. The functions my armv7 spends most
time in during ethernet receive (eg. v7_dma_inv_range) do appear to be
just nops on x86.
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
index ebb5e0bc516b..2bded1c46784 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
@@ -1957,11 +1957,11 @@  static int lan743x_rx_next_index(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index)
 
 static struct sk_buff *lan743x_rx_allocate_skb(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
 {
-	int length = 0;
+	struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev;
 
-	length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
-	return __netdev_alloc_skb(rx->adapter->netdev,
-				  length, GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
+	return __netdev_alloc_skb(netdev,
+				  netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING,
+				  GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA);
 }
 
 static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index,
@@ -1969,9 +1969,10 @@  static int lan743x_rx_init_ring_element(struct lan743x_rx *rx, int index,
 {
 	struct lan743x_rx_buffer_info *buffer_info;
 	struct lan743x_rx_descriptor *descriptor;
-	int length = 0;
+	struct net_device *netdev = rx->adapter->netdev;
+	int length;
 
-	length = (LAN743X_MAX_FRAME_SIZE + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING);
+	length = netdev->mtu + ETH_HLEN + 4 + RX_HEAD_PADDING;
 	descriptor = &rx->ring_cpu_ptr[index];
 	buffer_info = &rx->buffer_info[index];
 	buffer_info->skb = skb;
@@ -2157,8 +2158,8 @@  static int lan743x_rx_process_packet(struct lan743x_rx *rx)
 			int index = first_index;
 
 			/* multi buffer packet not supported */
-			/* this should not happen since
-			 * buffers are allocated to be at least jumbo size
+			/* this should not happen since buffers are allocated
+			 * to be at least the mtu size configured in the mac.
 			 */
 
 			/* clean up buffers */
@@ -2632,9 +2633,13 @@  static int lan743x_netdev_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
 	struct lan743x_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	if (netif_running(netdev))
+		return -EBUSY;
+
 	ret = lan743x_mac_set_mtu(adapter, new_mtu);
 	if (!ret)
 		netdev->mtu = new_mtu;
+
 	return ret;
 }