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mlx4: change TX coalescing defaults

mlx4 currently uses a too high tx coalescing setting, deferring
TX completion interrupts by up to 128 us.

With the recent skb_orphan() removal in commit 8112ec3b872,
performance of a single TCP flow is capped to ~4 Gbps, unless
we increase tcp_limit_output_bytes.

I suggest using 16 us instead of 128 us, allowing a finer control.

Performance of a single TCP flow is restored to previous levels,
while keeping TCP small queues fully enabled with default sysctl.

This patch is also a BQL prereq.

Reported-by: Vimalkumar <j.vimal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.com>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet 12 years ago
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ecfd2ce1a9

+ 1 - 1
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c

@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ static void mlx4_en_set_default_moderation(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
 	/* If we haven't received a specific coalescing setting
 	 * (module param), we set the moderation parameters as follows:
 	 * - moder_cnt is set to the number of mtu sized packets to
-	 *   satisfy our coelsing target.
+	 *   satisfy our coalescing target.
 	 * - moder_time is set to a fixed value.
 	 */
 	priv->rx_frames = MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TARGET;

+ 1 - 1
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ enum {
 #define MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TIME	0x10
 
 #define MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_PKTS	16
-#define MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_TIME	0x80
+#define MLX4_EN_TX_COAL_TIME	0x10
 
 #define MLX4_EN_RX_RATE_LOW		400000
 #define MLX4_EN_RX_COAL_TIME_LOW	0