Vmxnet3 driver supports receive data ring viz. a set of small sized
buffers that are always mapped by the emulation. If a packet fits into
the receive data ring buffer, the emulation delivers the packet via the
receive data ring.
Increasing the receive data ring descriptor size from 128 to 256
showed performance gains as high as 5% for packets smaller than 256.
Signed-off-by: Shraddha Joshi <jshraddha@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jin Heo <heoj@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Boon Ang <bang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Replace the BSD license header with the SPDX tag for files
with only an Intel copyright on them.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Extend port_id definition from uint8_t to uint16_t in lib and drivers
data structures, specifically rte_eth_dev_data. Modify the APIs,
drivers and app using port_id at the same time.
Fix some checkpatch issues from the original code and remove some
unnecessary cast operations.
release_17_11 and deprecation docs have been updated in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
If the user reconfigures the queue size, then the previously allocated
memzone may potentially be too small. Release the memzone when a queue
is released and allocate a new one each time a queue is setup.
While here convert to rte_eth_dma_zone_reserve() which does basically
the same things as the private function.
Fixes: dfaff37fc4 ("vmxnet3: import new vmxnet3 poll mode driver implementation")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <ciwillia@brocade.com>
Acked-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
vmxnet3 driver preallocates buffers for receiving packets and posts the
buffers to the emulation. In order to deliver a received packet to the
guest, the emulation must map buffer(s) and copy the packet into it.
To avoid this memory mapping overhead, this patch introduces the receive
data ring - a set of small sized buffers that are always mapped by
the emulation. If a packet fits into the receive data ring buffer, the
emulation delivers the packet via the receive data ring (which must be
copied by the guest driver), or else the usual receive path is used.
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jin Heo <heoj@vmware.com>
vmxnet3 driver supports transmit data ring viz. a set of fixed size
buffers used by the driver to copy packet headers. Small packets that
fit these buffers are copied into these buffers entirely.
Currently this buffer size of fixed at 128 bytes. This patch extends
transmit data ring implementation to allow variable length transmit
data ring buffers. The length of the buffer is read from the emulation
during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jin Heo <heoj@vmware.com>
Add support for linking multi-segment buffers together to
handle Jumbo packets. The vmxnet3 API supports having header
and body buffer types. What this patch does is fill the primary
ring completely with header buffers and the secondary ring
with body buffers. This allows for non-jumbo frames to only
use one mbuf (from primary ring); and jumbo frames will have
first mbuf from primary ring and following mbufs from other
ring.
This could be optimized in future if the DPDK had API
to supply different sized mbufs (two pools) into driver.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Release note addition:
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
fix the error reported by checkpatch:
"ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required"
remove parentheses in return like:
"return (logical expressions)"
remove parentheses in return a function like:
"return (rte_mempool_lookup(...))"
Fixes: 6307b909b8 ("lib: remove extra parenthesis after return")
Signed-off-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Change sending loop to support multi-segment mbufs.
The VMXNET3 api has start-of-packet and end-packet flags, so it
is not hard to send multi-segment mbuf's.
Also, update descriptor in 32 bit value rather than toggling
bitfields which is slower and error prone.
Based on code in earlier driver, and the Linux kernel driver.
Add a compiler barrier to make sure that update of earlier descriptor
are completed prior to update of generation bit on start of packet.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
There are several stats here which are never set, and have no way
to be displayed. Assume in future xstats could be used.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Move vmxnet3 PMD to drivers/net directory.
As part of the move, rename the "vmxnet3" subdirectory, containing the
original FreeBSD drivers, from "vmxnet3" to the more standard name
"base", to indicate it contains the base drivers used for the
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
