@@ -29,11 +29,9 @@ The kernel configuration option is STMMAC_ETH:
dma_txsize: DMA tx ring size;
buf_sz: DMA buffer size;
tc: control the HW FIFO threshold;
- tx_coe: Enable/Disable Tx Checksum Offload engine;
watchdog: transmit timeout (in milliseconds);
flow_ctrl: Flow control ability [on/off];
pause: Flow Control Pause Time;
- tmrate: timer period (only if timer optimisation is configured).
3) Command line options
Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
@@ -60,17 +58,19 @@ Then the poll method will be scheduled at some future point.
The incoming packets are stored, by the DMA, in a list of pre-allocated socket
buffers in order to avoid the memcpy (Zero-copy).
-4.3) Timer-Driver Interrupt
-Instead of having the device that asynchronously notifies the frame receptions,
-the driver configures a timer to generate an interrupt at regular intervals.
-Based on the granularity of the timer, the frames that are received by the
-device will experience different levels of latency. Some NICs have dedicated
-timer device to perform this task. STMMAC can use either the RTC device or the
-TMU channel 2 on STLinux platforms.
-The timers frequency can be passed to the driver as parameter; when change it,
-take care of both hardware capability and network stability/performance impact.
-Several performance tests on STM platforms showed this optimisation allows to
-spare the CPU while having the maximum throughput.
+4.3) Interrupt Mitigation
+The driver is able to mitigate the number of its DMA interrupts
+using NAPI for the reception on chips older than the 3.50.
+New chips have an HW RX-Watchdog used for this mitigation.
+
+On Tx-side, the mitigation schema is based on a SW timer that calls the
+tx function (stmmac_tx) to reclaim the resource after transmitting the
+frames.
+Also there is another parameter (like a threshold) used to program
+the descriptors avoiding to set the interrupt on completion bit in
+when the frame is sent (xmit).
+
+Mitigation parameters can be tuned by ethtool.
4.4) WOL
Wake up on Lan feature through Magic and Unicast frames are supported for the
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ struct plat_stmmacenet_data {
int bugged_jumbo;
int pmt;
int force_sf_dma_mode;
+ int riwt_off;
void (*fix_mac_speed)(void *priv, unsigned int speed);
void (*bus_setup)(void __iomem *ioaddr);
int (*init)(struct platform_device *pdev);
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ Where:
o pmt: core has the embedded power module (optional).
o force_sf_dma_mode: force DMA to use the Store and Forward mode
instead of the Threshold.
+ o riwt_off: force to disable the RX watchdog feature and switch to NAPI mode.
o fix_mac_speed: this callback is used for modifying some syscfg registers
(on ST SoCs) according to the link speed negotiated by the
physical layer .
This patch updates the stmmac.txt adding some information about the new rx/tx mitigation schema adopted in the driver. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> --- Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 28 +++++++++++++++------------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)