From patchwork Thu Feb 26 10:05:17 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Sosnowski, Maciej" X-Patchwork-Id: 23763 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FD8DDE00 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:14:46 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756256AbZBZKOF (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:14:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756243AbZBZKOD (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:14:03 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:57832 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755495AbZBZKOA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:14:00 -0500 Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Feb 2009 02:07:14 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,270,1233561600"; d="scan'208";a="434322909" Received: from gklab-190-232.igk.intel.com (HELO linux.site) ([172.28.190.232]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 Feb 2009 02:09:48 -0800 From: Maciej Sosnowski Subject: [PATCH 5/7] I/OAT: set tcp_dma_copybreak to 256k for I/OAT ver.3 To: dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: snakebyte@gmx.de, shannon.nelson@intel.com, jeffrey.t.krisher@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:05:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20090226100515.3615.70407.stgit@linux.site> In-Reply-To: <20090226100327.3615.21419.stgit@linux.site> References: <20090226100327.3615.21419.stgit@linux.site> User-Agent: StGIT/0.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Upcoming server platforms from Intel based on the Nehalem performance have significantly improved CPU based copy performance. However, the DMA engine can still be effective at higher I/O sizes for TCP traffic and at this time copybreak should be set to 256k for TCP traffic only. Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher --- drivers/dma/ioatdma.h | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioatdma.h b/drivers/dma/ioatdma.h index a3306d0..dcf8db5 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ioatdma.h +++ b/drivers/dma/ioatdma.h @@ -135,12 +135,14 @@ static inline void ioat_set_tcp_copy_bre #ifdef CONFIG_NET_DMA switch (dev->version) { case IOAT_VER_1_2: - case IOAT_VER_3_0: sysctl_tcp_dma_copybreak = 4096; break; case IOAT_VER_2_0: sysctl_tcp_dma_copybreak = 2048; break; + case IOAT_VER_3_0: + sysctl_tcp_dma_copybreak = 262144; + break; } #endif }