There is an opportunity to bulk free SKBs during reclaiming of
resources after DMA transmit completes in ixgbe_clean_tx_irq. Thus,
bulk freeing at this point does not introduce any added latency.
Simply use napi_consume_skb() which were recently introduced. The
napi_budget parameter is needed by napi_consume_skb() to detect if it
is called from netpoll.
Benchmarking IPv4-forwarding, on CPU i7-4790K @4.2GHz (no turbo boost)
Single CPU/flow numbers: before: 1982144 pps -> after : 2064446 pps
Improvement: +82302 pps, -20 nanosec, +4.1%
(SLUB and GCC version 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4))
Joint work with Alexander Duyck.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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