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From: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
To: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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	Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH net-next 7/8] net: ravb: Enable SW IRQ Coalescing for GbEth
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:05:21 +0000
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Software IRQ Coalescing is required to improve network stack performance
in the RZ/G2L SoC family and the RZ/G3S SoC, i.e. the SoCs which use the
GbEth IP.

For the RZ/G2L, network throughput is comparable before and after this
change. CPU usage during TCP RX testing dropped by 6.5% and during UDP
RX testing dropped by 10%.

For the RZ/G2UL, network throughput is generally increased by this
change (results obtained with iperf3):
  * TCP TX: 2.9% more throughput
  * TCP RX: 1.1% more throughput
  * UDP TX: similar throughput
  * UDP RX: 41500% more throughput

For the RZ/G3S we see improvements in network throughput similar to the
RZ/G2UL.

The improvement of UDP RX bandwidth for the single core SoCs (RZ/G2UL &
RZ/G3S) is particularly critical.

Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h      | 1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
index 9e9cf0d36d72..da2c09b14389 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
@@ -1078,6 +1078,7 @@ struct ravb_hw_info {
 	unsigned nc_queues:1;		/* AVB-DMAC has RX and TX NC queues */
 	unsigned magic_pkt:1;		/* E-MAC supports magic packet detection */
 	unsigned half_duplex:1;		/* E-MAC supports half duplex mode */
+	unsigned needs_irq_coalesce:1;	/* Requires SW IRQ Coalescing to achieve best performance */
 };
 
 struct ravb_private {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
index c3a5e4bb61f9..483993ec25ba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
@@ -2684,6 +2684,7 @@ static const struct ravb_hw_info gbeth_hw_info = {
 	.tx_counters = 1,
 	.carrier_counters = 1,
 	.half_duplex = 1,
+	.needs_irq_coalesce = 1,
 };
 
 static const struct of_device_id ravb_match_table[] = {
@@ -3028,6 +3029,9 @@ static int ravb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (info->nc_queues)
 		netif_napi_add(ndev, &priv->napi[RAVB_NC], info->poll);
 
+	if (info->needs_irq_coalesce)
+		netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on(ndev);
+
 	/* Network device register */
 	error = register_netdev(ndev);
 	if (error)
-- 
2.39.2