mlx4_en: map entire pages to increase throughput

In its receive path, mlx4_en driver maps each page chunk that it pushes
to the hardware and unmaps it when pushing it up the stack. This limits
throughput to about 3Gbps on a Power7 8-core machine.

One solution is to map the entire allocated page at once. However, this
requires that we keep track of every page fragment we give to a
descriptor. We also need to work with the discipline that all fragments will
be released (in the sense that it will not be reused by the driver
anymore) in the order they are allocated to the driver.

This requires that we don't reuse any fragments, every single one of
them must be reallocated. We do that by releasing all the fragments that
are processed and only after finished processing the descriptors, we
start the refill.

We also must somehow guarantee that we either refill all fragments in a
descriptor or none at all, without resorting to giving up a page
fragment that we would have already given. Otherwise, we would break the
discipline of only releasing the fragments in the order they were
allocated.

This has passed page allocation fault injections (restricted to the
driver by using required-start and required-end) and device hotplug
while 16 TCP streams were able to deliver more than 9Gbps.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index af34c98d43e5..5f1ab105debc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ enum {
 #define MLX4_EN_MAX_TX_SIZE	8192
 #define MLX4_EN_MAX_RX_SIZE	8192
 
-/* Minimum ring size for our page-allocation sceme to work */
+/* Minimum ring size for our page-allocation scheme to work */
 #define MLX4_EN_MIN_RX_SIZE	(MLX4_EN_ALLOC_SIZE / SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
 #define MLX4_EN_MIN_TX_SIZE	(4096 / TXBB_SIZE)
 
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ struct mlx4_en_tx_desc {
 
 struct mlx4_en_rx_alloc {
 	struct page *page;
+	dma_addr_t dma;
 	u16 offset;
 };