Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933600Ab3CVOui (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:50:38 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:58389 "EHLO mail-pb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932719Ab3CVOug convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:50:36 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add support for handling queueing in hardware From: Ben Collins In-Reply-To: <1363962193.4431.59.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:50:38 -0400 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <63463136-FE5B-462D-9259-53DD5AC61BDB@gmail.com> References: <1363962193.4431.59.camel@edumazet-glaptop> To: Eric Dumazet X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2777 Lines: 74 On Mar 22, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 08:52 -0500, Andy Fleming wrote: >> The QDisc code does a bunch of locking which is unnecessary if >> you have hardware which handles all of the queueing. Add >> support for this, and skip over all of the queueing code if >> the feature is enabled on a given device, which breaks QDisc >> support on dpaa_eth, and also coopts the FCOE feature bit. >> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming >> Signed-off-by: Ben Collins >> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org >> --- >> include/linux/netdev_features.h | 2 ++ >> net/core/dev.c | 6 ++++++ >> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h >> index 3dd3934..ffb4587 100644 >> --- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h >> +++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h >> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ enum { >> NETIF_F_LOOPBACK_BIT, /* Enable loopback */ >> NETIF_F_RXFCS_BIT, /* Append FCS to skb pkt data */ >> NETIF_F_RXALL_BIT, /* Receive errored frames too */ >> + NETIF_F_HW_QDISC_BIT, /* Supports hardware Qdisc */ >> >> /* >> * Add your fresh new feature above and remember to update >> @@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ enum { >> #define NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST __NETIF_F(GSO_ROBUST) >> #define NETIF_F_HIGHDMA __NETIF_F(HIGHDMA) >> #define NETIF_F_HW_CSUM __NETIF_F(HW_CSUM) >> +#define NETIF_F_HW_QDISC __NETIF_F(HW_QDISC) >> #define NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER __NETIF_F(HW_VLAN_FILTER) >> #define NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX __NETIF_F(HW_VLAN_RX) >> #define NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX __NETIF_F(HW_VLAN_TX) >> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c >> index dffbef7..6818b18 100644 >> --- a/net/core/dev.c >> +++ b/net/core/dev.c >> @@ -2743,6 +2743,12 @@ int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb) >> >> skb_update_prio(skb); >> >> + if (dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_QDISC) { >> + txq = netdev_pick_tx(dev, skb); >> + rc = dev_hard_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq); >> + goto out; >> + } >> + >> txq = netdev_pick_tx(dev, skb); >> q = rcu_dereference_bh(txq->qdisc); >> > > Nobody forces you to use a qdisc. > > And if your device really is lockless, it can use NETIF_F_LLTX feature. NETIF_F_LLTX_BIT, /* LockLess TX - deprecated. Please */ /* do not use LLTX in new drivers */ -- Servergy : http://www.servergy.com/ SwissDisk : http://www.swissdisk.com/ Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ My Blog : http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/