liquidio: improve UDP TX performance

Improve UDP TX performance by:
* reducing the ring size from 2K to 512
* replacing the numerous streaming DMA allocations for info buffers and
  gather lists with one large consistent DMA allocation per ring

BQL is not effective here.  We reduced the ring size because there is heavy
overhead with dma_map_single every so often.  With iommu=on, dma_map_single
in PF Tx data path was taking longer time (~700usec) for every ~250
packets.  Debugged intel_iommu code, and found that PF driver is utilizing
too many static IO virtual address mapping entries (for gather list entries
and info buffers): about 100K entries for two PF's each using 8 rings.
Also, finding an empty entry (in rbtree of device domain's iova mapping in
kernel) during Tx path becomes a bottleneck every so often; the loop to
find the empty entry goes through over 40K iterations; this is too costly
and was the major overhead.  Overhead is low when this loop quits quickly.

Netperf benchmark numbers before and after patch:

PF UDP TX
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |        |  Before    |  After     |         |
| Number |        |  Patch     |  Patch     |         |
|  of    | Packet | Throughput | Throughput | Percent |
| Flows  |  Size  |  (Gbps)    |  (Gbps)    | Change  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |   360  |   0.52     |   0.93     |  +78.9  |
|   1    |  1024  |   1.62     |   2.84     |  +75.3  |
|        |  1518  |   2.44     |   4.21     |  +72.5  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |   360  |   0.45     |   1.59     | +253.3  |
|   4    |  1024  |   1.34     |   5.48     | +308.9  |
|        |  1518  |   2.27     |   8.31     | +266.1  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |   360  |   0.40     |   1.61     | +302.5  |
|   8    |  1024  |   1.64     |   4.24     | +158.5  |
|        |  1518  |   2.87     |   6.52     | +127.2  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+

VF UDP TX
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |        |  Before    |  After     |         |
| Number |        |  Patch     |  Patch     |         |
|  of    | Packet | Throughput | Throughput | Percent |
| Flows  |  Size  |  (Gbps)    |  (Gbps)    | Change  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |   360  |   1.28     |   1.49     |  +16.4  |
|   1    |  1024  |   4.44     |   4.39     |   -1.1  |
|        |  1518  |   6.08     |   6.51     |   +7.1  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |   360  |   2.35     |   2.35     |    0.0  |
|   4    |  1024  |   6.41     |   8.07     |  +25.9  |
|        |  1518  |   9.56     |   9.54     |   -0.2  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+
|        |   360  |   3.41     |   3.65     |   +7.0  |
|   8    |  1024  |   9.35     |   9.34     |   -0.1  |
|        |  1518  |   9.56     |   9.57     |   +0.1  |
+--------+--------+------------+------------+---------+

Signed-off-by: VSR Burru <veerasenareddy.burru@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghu Vatsavayi <raghu.vatsavayi@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_config.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_config.h
index b3dc2e9651a8..d29ebc531151 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_config.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_config.h
@@ -71,17 +71,17 @@
 #define   CN23XX_MAX_RINGS_PER_VF          8
 
 #define   CN23XX_MAX_INPUT_QUEUES	CN23XX_MAX_RINGS_PER_PF
-#define   CN23XX_MAX_IQ_DESCRIPTORS	2048
+#define   CN23XX_MAX_IQ_DESCRIPTORS	512
 #define   CN23XX_DB_MIN                 1
 #define   CN23XX_DB_MAX                 8
 #define   CN23XX_DB_TIMEOUT             1
 
 #define   CN23XX_MAX_OUTPUT_QUEUES	CN23XX_MAX_RINGS_PER_PF
-#define   CN23XX_MAX_OQ_DESCRIPTORS	2048
+#define   CN23XX_MAX_OQ_DESCRIPTORS	512
 #define   CN23XX_OQ_BUF_SIZE		1536
 #define   CN23XX_OQ_PKTSPER_INTR	128
 /*#define CAVIUM_ONLY_CN23XX_RX_PERF*/
-#define   CN23XX_OQ_REFIL_THRESHOLD	128
+#define   CN23XX_OQ_REFIL_THRESHOLD	16
 
 #define   CN23XX_OQ_INTR_PKT		64
 #define   CN23XX_OQ_INTR_TIME		100