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authorDmitri Epshtein <dima@marvell.com>2016-07-06 04:18:58 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-10 10:21:04 +0200
commit05abf74f864b6d8c38b34d5314e0f50910105584 (patch)
tree36e724c0b623f49f866a777d6b4c6fa72fa1bb76
parent6b96b2d473701b45df3fea8dd9796b6ec39e6d54 (diff)
net: mvneta: set real interrupt per packet for tx_done
commit 06708f81528725148473c0869d6af5f809c6824b upstream. Commit aebea2ba0f74 ("net: mvneta: fix Tx interrupt delay") intended to set coalescing threshold to a value guaranteeing interrupt generation per each sent packet, so that buffers can be released with no delay. In fact setting threshold to '1' was wrong, because it causes interrupt every two packets. According to the documentation a reason behind it is following - interrupt occurs once sent buffers counter reaches a value, which is higher than one specified in MVNETA_TXQ_SIZE_REG(q). This behavior was confirmed during tests. Also when testing the SoC working as a NAS device, better performance was observed with int-per-packet, as it strongly depends on the fact that all transmitted packets are released immediately. This commit enables NETA controller work in interrupt per sent packet mode by setting coalescing threshold to 0. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> Fixes aebea2ba0f74 ("net: mvneta: fix Tx interrupt delay") Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
index c089fa1ceea9..f4c86225be36 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
/* Various constants */
/* Coalescing */
-#define MVNETA_TXDONE_COAL_PKTS 1
+#define MVNETA_TXDONE_COAL_PKTS 0 /* interrupt per packet */
#define MVNETA_RX_COAL_PKTS 32
#define MVNETA_RX_COAL_USEC 100