Back in commit 3b47d30396 ("net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer")
we added the ability to arm one high resolution timer, that we used
to keep not-complete packets in GRO engine a bit longer, hoping that further
frames might be added to them.
Since then, we added the napi_complete_done() interface, and commit
364b605573 ("net: busy-poll: return busypolling status to drivers")
allowed drivers to avoid re-arming NIC interrupts if we made a promise
that their NAPI poll() handler would be called in the near future.
This infrastructure can be leveraged, thanks to a new device parameter,
which allows to arm the napi hrtimer, instead of re-arming the device
hard IRQ.
We have noticed that on some servers with 32 RX queues or more, the chit-chat
between the NIC and the host caused by IRQ delivery and re-arming could hurt
throughput by ~20% on 100Gbit NIC.
In contrast, hrtimers are using local (percpu) resources and might have lower
cost.
The new tunable, named napi_defer_hard_irqs, is placed in the same hierarchy
than gro_flush_timeout (/sys/class/net/ethX/)
By default, both gro_flush_timeout and napi_defer_hard_irqs are zero.
This patch does not change the prior behavior of gro_flush_timeout
if used alone : NIC hard irqs should be rearmed as before.
One concrete usage can be :
echo 20000 >/sys/class/net/eth1/gro_flush_timeout
echo 10 >/sys/class/net/eth1/napi_defer_hard_irqs
If at least one packet is retired, then we will reset napi counter
to 10 (napi_defer_hard_irqs), ensuring at least 10 periodic scans
of the queue.
On busy queues, this should avoid NIC hard IRQ, while before this patch IRQ
avoidance was only possible if napi->poll() was exhausting its budget
and not call napi_complete_done().
This feature also can be used to work around some non-optimal NIC irq
coalescing strategies.
Having the ability to insert XX usec delays between each napi->poll()
can increase cache efficiency, since we increase batch sizes.
It also keeps serving cpus not idle too long, reducing tail latencies.
Co-developed-by: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
