From dabeb3b0d5c3761eeec27e5af4eb53dda97b4445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavi Teitz Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:12:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Enable stateless offloads for VF representor netdevs Enabled checksum and TSO offloads for the representors, in order to increase their performance, which is required to increase the performance of flows that cannot be offloaded. Checksum offloads contribute to a general acceleration of all traffic (to around 150%), whereas the TSO offload contributes to a prominent acceleration of the representor's TX for traffic flows with larger than MTU sized packets (to around 200%). This is the usual case for TCP streams, as the PF, which serves as the uplink representor, and the VF representors employ GRO before forwarding the packets to the representor. GRO was enabled implicitly for the representors beforehand, and is explicitly enabled here to ensure that the representors preserve the performance boost it provides (of around 200%) when working in tandem with the TSO offload by the forwardee, which is the standard case as both the PF and the VF representors employ HW TSO. The impact of these changes can be seen in the following measurements taken on a setup of a VM over a VF, connected to OVS via the VF representor, to an external host: Before current changes: TCP Throughput [Gb/s] External host to VM ~ 10.5 VM to external host ~ 23.5 With just checksum offloads enabled: TCP Throughput [Gb/s] External host to VM ~ 14.9 VM to external host ~ 28.5 With the TSO offload also enabled: TCP Throughput [Gb/s] External host to VM ~ 30.5 Signed-off-by: Gavi Teitz Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c index fc4433e93846..08ba2063e8f6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c @@ -962,6 +962,16 @@ static void mlx5e_build_rep_netdev(struct net_device *netdev) netdev->features |= NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED | NETIF_F_HW_TC | NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_TC; + netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_SG; + netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM; + netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM; + netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_GRO; + netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO; + netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO6; + netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM; + + netdev->features |= netdev->hw_features; + eth_hw_addr_random(netdev); netdev->min_mtu = ETH_MIN_MTU; -- GitLab