r323954 changed the mp ring behaviour when 64-bit atomics were
available to abdicate the TX ring rather than having one become a
consumer thereby running to completion on TX. The consumer of the mp
ring was then triggered in the tx task rather than blocking the TX call.
While this significantly lowered the number of RX drops in small-packet
forwarding, it also negatively impacts TX performance.
With this change, the default behaviour is reverted, causing one TX ring
to become a consumer during the enqueue call. A new sysctl,
dev.X.Y.iflib.tx_abdicate is added to control this behaviour.
Reviewed by: gallatin
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16302
"iflib is a library to eliminate the need for frequently duplicated device
independent logic propagated (poorly) across many network drivers."
Participation is purely optional. The IFLIB kernel config option is
provided for drivers that want to transition between legacy and iflib
modes of operation. ixl and ixgbe driver conversions will be committed
shortly. We hope to see participation from the Broadcom and maybe
Chelsio drivers in the near future.
Submitted by: mmacy@nextbsd.org
Reviewed by: gallatin
Differential Revision: D5211
