[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/enic: fix poor multi-queue Rx performance

John Daley johndale at cisco.com
Wed Oct 12 23:22:29 CEST 2016


The rx_free_thresh was not being initialized and left at 0
on 1/2 of the RQs which could lead to poor multi-queue
performanace.

Fixes: 856d7ba7ed22 ("net/enic: support scattered Rx")

Signed-off-by: John Daley <johndale at cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Nelson Escobar <neescoba at cisco.com>
---
 drivers/net/enic/enic.h        | 2 +-
 drivers/net/enic/enic_ethdev.c | 7 ++-----
 drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c   | 8 ++++++--
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/enic/enic.h b/drivers/net/enic/enic.h
index 4ea4e4a..0d7f379 100644
--- a/drivers/net/enic/enic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/enic/enic.h
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ extern int enic_stop_rq(struct enic *enic, uint16_t queue_idx);
 extern void enic_free_rq(void *rxq);
 extern int enic_alloc_rq(struct enic *enic, uint16_t queue_idx,
 	unsigned int socket_id, struct rte_mempool *mp,
-	uint16_t nb_desc);
+	uint16_t nb_desc, uint16_t free_thresh);
 extern int enic_set_rss_nic_cfg(struct enic *enic);
 extern int enic_set_vnic_res(struct enic *enic);
 extern void enic_set_hdr_split_size(struct enic *enic, u16 split_hdr_size);
diff --git a/drivers/net/enic/enic_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/enic/enic_ethdev.c
index 4d24bbd..ef20714 100644
--- a/drivers/net/enic/enic_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/enic/enic_ethdev.c
@@ -315,16 +315,13 @@ static int enicpmd_dev_rx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev,
 	eth_dev->data->rx_queues[queue_idx] =
 		(void *)&enic->rq[enic_sop_rq(queue_idx)];
 
-	ret = enic_alloc_rq(enic, queue_idx, socket_id, mp, nb_desc);
+	ret = enic_alloc_rq(enic, queue_idx, socket_id, mp, nb_desc,
+			    rx_conf->rx_free_thresh);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(enic, "error in allocating rq\n");
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	enic->rq[queue_idx].rx_free_thresh = rx_conf->rx_free_thresh;
-	dev_debug(enic, "Set queue_id:%u free thresh:%u\n", queue_idx,
-			enic->rq[queue_idx].rx_free_thresh);
-
 	return enicpmd_dev_setup_intr(enic);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c b/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c
index 622b317..eb6ae08 100644
--- a/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ int enic_stop_rq(struct enic *enic, uint16_t queue_idx)
 
 int enic_alloc_rq(struct enic *enic, uint16_t queue_idx,
 	unsigned int socket_id, struct rte_mempool *mp,
-	uint16_t nb_desc)
+	uint16_t nb_desc, uint16_t free_thresh)
 {
 	int rc;
 	uint16_t sop_queue_idx = enic_sop_rq(queue_idx);
@@ -624,6 +624,10 @@ int enic_alloc_rq(struct enic *enic, uint16_t queue_idx,
 	rq_data->socket_id = socket_id;
 	rq_data->mp = mp;
 	rq_sop->in_use = 1;
+	rq_sop->rx_free_thresh = free_thresh;
+	rq_data->rx_free_thresh = free_thresh;
+	dev_debug(enic, "Set queue_id:%u free thresh:%u\n", queue_idx,
+		  free_thresh);
 
 	mbuf_size = (uint16_t)(rte_pktmbuf_data_room_size(mp) -
 			       RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM);
@@ -1236,7 +1240,7 @@ int enic_set_mtu(struct enic *enic, uint16_t new_mtu)
 
 		enic_free_rq(rq);
 		rc = enic_alloc_rq(enic, rq_idx, rq->socket_id, rq->mp,
-				   rq->tot_nb_desc);
+				   rq->tot_nb_desc, rq->rx_free_thresh);
 		if (rc) {
 			dev_err(enic,
 				"Fatal MTU alloc error- No traffic will pass\n");
-- 
2.10.0



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