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Commit dad42c30 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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mlx4: avoid unnecessary dirtying of critical fields


While stressing a 40Gbit mlx4 NIC with busy polling, I found false
sharing in mlx4 driver that can be easily avoided.

This patch brings an additional 7 % performance improvement in UDP_RR
workload.

1) If we received no frame during one mlx4_en_process_rx_cq()
   invocation, no need to call mlx4_cq_set_ci() and/or dirty ring->cons

2) Do not refill rx buffers if we have plenty of them.
   This avoids false sharing and allows some bulk/batch optimizations.
   Page allocator and its locks will thank us.

Finally, mlx4_en_poll_rx_cq() should not return 0 if it determined
cpu handling NIC IRQ should be changed. We should return budget-1
instead, to not fool net_rx_action() and its netdev_budget.

v2: keep AVG_PERF_COUNTER(... polled) even if polled is 0

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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