[PATCH net-next v15 0/5] ethtool: provide the dim profile fine-tuning channel

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The NetDIM library provides excellent acceleration for many modern
network cards. However, the default profiles of DIM limits its maximum
capabilities for different NICs, so providing a way which the NIC can
be custom configured is necessary.

Currently, the way is based on the commonly used "ethtool -C".

For example,
on the server side, the virtio-net NIC with rx dim enabled has 8
queues and runs nginx.
The client uses the following command to send traffic to the server:
  ./wrk http://server_ip:80 -c 64 -t 5 -d 30

Then adjust the default rx-profile for server dim to

  {.usec =   1, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
  {.usec =   8, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
  {.usec =  30, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
  {.usec =  64, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
  {.usec = 128, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,}

The server PPS is improved by 20%+.

Please review, thank you very much!

Changelog
=====
v14->v15:
  - Modify the mod bit and add some hints.

Jakub feedback: Use RESEND to refresh the review queue.

v13->v14:
  - Make DIMLIB dependent on NET (patch 2/5).

v12->v13:
  - Rebase net-next to fix the one-line conflict.
  - Update tiny comments.
  - Config ETHTOOL_NETLINK to select DIMLIB.

v11->v12:
  - Remove the use of IS_ENABLED(DIMLIB).
  - Update Simon's htmldoc hint.

v10->v11:
  - Fix and clean up some issues from Kuba, thanks.
  - Rebase net-next/main

v9->v10:
  - Collect dim related flags/mode/work into one place.
  - Use rx_profile + tx_profile instead of four profiles.
  - Add several helps.
  - Update commit logs.

v8->v9:
  - Fix the compilation error of conflicting names of rx_profile in
    dim.h and ice driver: in dim.h, rx_profile is replaced with
    dim_rx_profile. So does tx_profile.

v7->v8:
  - Use kmemdup() instead of kzalloc()/memcpy() in dev_dim_profile_init().

v6->v7:
  - A new wrapper struct pointer is used in struct net_device.
  - Add IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DIMLIB) to avoid compiler warnings.
  - Profile fields changed from u16 to u32.

v5->v6:
  - Place the profile in netdevice to bypass the driver.
    The interaction code of ethtool <-> kernel has not changed at all,
    only the interaction part of kernel <-> driver has changed.

v4->v5:
  - Update some snippets from Kuba.

v3->v4:
  - Some tiny updates and patch 1 only add a new comment.

v2->v3:
  - Break up the attributes to avoid the use of raw c structs.
  - Use per-device profile instead of global profile in the driver.

v1->v2:
  - Use ethtool tool instead of net-sysfs.

Heng Qi (5):
  linux/dim: move useful macros to .h file
  dim: make DIMLIB dependent on NET
  ethtool: provide customized dim profile management
  dim: add new interfaces for initialization and getting results
  virtio-net: support dim profile fine-tuning

 Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml     |  31 +++
 Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst |   8 +
 Documentation/networking/net_dim.rst         |  42 +++
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c                     |  54 +++-
 drivers/soc/fsl/Kconfig                      |   2 +-
 include/linux/dim.h                          | 113 ++++++++
 include/linux/ethtool.h                      |   4 +-
 include/linux/netdevice.h                    |   3 +
 include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink.h         |  22 ++
 lib/Kconfig                                  |   1 +
 lib/dim/net_dim.c                            | 144 +++++++++-
 net/Kconfig                                  |   1 +
 net/ethtool/coalesce.c                       | 273 ++++++++++++++++++-
 13 files changed, 681 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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2.32.0.3.g01195cf9f





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