On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:21:45AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > - As David Laight pointed out earlier, you must also ensure that > you don't have too much /data/ pending in the descriptor ring > when you stop the queue. For a 10mbit connection, you have already > tested (as we discussed on IRC) that 64 descriptors with 1500 byte > frames gives you a 68ms round-trip ping time, which is too much. > Conversely, on 1gbit, having only 64 descriptors actually seems > a little low, and you may be able to get better throughput if > you extend the ring to e.g. 512 descriptors. You don't manage that by stopping the queue - there's separate interfaces where you report how many bytes you've queued (netdev_sent_queue()) and how many bytes/packets you've sent (netdev_tx_completed_queue()). This allows the netdev schedulers to limit how much data is held in the queue, preserving interactivity while allowing the advantages of larger rings. > > + phys = dma_map_single(&ndev->dev, skb->data, skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); > > + if (dma_mapping_error(&ndev->dev, phys)) { > > + dev_kfree_skb(skb); > > + return NETDEV_TX_OK; > > + } > > + > > + priv->tx_skb[tx_head] = skb; > > + priv->tx_phys[tx_head] = phys; > > + desc->send_addr = cpu_to_be32(phys); > > + desc->send_size = cpu_to_be16(skb->len); > > + desc->cfg = cpu_to_be32(DESC_DEF_CFG); > > + phys = priv->tx_desc_dma + tx_head * sizeof(struct tx_desc); > > + desc->wb_addr = cpu_to_be32(phys); > > One detail: since you don't have cache-coherent DMA, "desc" will > reside in uncached memory, so you try to minimize the number of accesses. > It's probably faster if you build the descriptor on the stack and > then atomically copy it over, rather than assigning each member at > a time. DMA coherent memory is write combining, so multiple writes will be coalesced. This also means that barriers may be required to ensure the descriptors are pushed out in a timely manner if something like writel() is not used in the transmit-triggering path. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly improving, and getting towards what was expected from it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html