pasemi_mac: Improve RX interrupt mitigation

pasemi_mac: Improve RX interrupt mitigation

Currently the receive side interrupts will go off on the reception of
a packet, NAPI will poll the ring and keep polling as long as there's
a decent amount of packets to receive.

This is less than optimal, especially for LRO where it's better if we
have a more substantial amount of packets to process at once, to get
the real LRO benefits.

So, set the count threshold to a higher value and use the timeout feature
that will give us an interrupt even if not enough packets have come in
to set off the count threshold.

FIXME: It'd be real nice to have ethtool support for users to tune this
at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c b/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
index 683e8de..e78aac4 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
@@ -504,15 +504,19 @@ static void pasemi_mac_replenish_rx_ring(const struct net_device *dev,
 
 static void pasemi_mac_restart_rx_intr(const struct pasemi_mac *mac)
 {
+       struct pasemi_mac_rxring *rx = rx_ring(mac);
        unsigned int reg, pcnt;
        /* Re-enable packet count interrupts: finally
         * ack the packet count interrupt we got in rx_intr.
         */
 
-       pcnt = *rx_ring(mac)->chan.status & PAS_STATUS_PCNT_M;
+       pcnt = *rx->chan.status & PAS_STATUS_PCNT_M;
 
        reg = PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_RESET_PCNT(pcnt) | PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_RESET_PINTC;
 
+       if (*rx->chan.status & PAS_STATUS_TIMER)
+               reg |= PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_RESET_TINTC;
+
        write_iob_reg(PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_RESET(mac->rx->chan.chno), reg);
 }
 
@@ -795,8 +799,6 @@ static irqreturn_t pasemi_mac_rx_intr(int irq, void *data)
                reg |= PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_RESET_SINTC;
        if (*chan->status & PAS_STATUS_ERROR)
                reg |= PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_RESET_DINTC;
-       if (*chan->status & PAS_STATUS_TIMER)
-               reg |= PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_RESET_TINTC;
 
        netif_rx_schedule(dev, &mac->napi);
 
@@ -972,10 +974,6 @@ static int pasemi_mac_open(struct net_device *dev)
 
        write_mac_reg(mac, PAS_MAC_CFG_TXP, flags);
 
-       /* 0xffffff is max value, about 16ms */
-       write_iob_reg(PAS_IOB_DMA_COM_TIMEOUTCFG,
-                     PAS_IOB_DMA_COM_TIMEOUTCFG_TCNT(0xffffff));
-
        ret = pasemi_mac_setup_rx_resources(dev);
        if (ret)
                goto out_rx_resources;
@@ -985,8 +983,12 @@ static int pasemi_mac_open(struct net_device *dev)
        if (!mac->tx)
                goto out_tx_ring;
 
+       /* 0x3ff with 33MHz clock is about 31us */
+       write_iob_reg(PAS_IOB_DMA_COM_TIMEOUTCFG,
+                     PAS_IOB_DMA_COM_TIMEOUTCFG_TCNT(0x3ff));
+
        write_iob_reg(PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_CFG(mac->rx->chan.chno),
-                     PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_CFG_CNTTH(0));
+                     PAS_IOB_DMA_RXCH_CFG_CNTTH(128));
 
        write_iob_reg(PAS_IOB_DMA_TXCH_CFG(mac->tx->chan.chno),
                      PAS_IOB_DMA_TXCH_CFG_CNTTH(32));