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The representors' RQ size was not large enough for them to achieve
high enough performance, and therefore needed to be enlarged, while
suffering a minimum hit to its memory usage. To achieve this the
representors RQ size was increased, and its type was changed to be a
striding RQ if it is supported.
Towards that goal the following changes were made:
* Extracted the sequence for setting the standard netdev's RQ parmas
into a function
* Replaced the sequence for setting the representor's RQ params with
the standard sequence
The impact of this change can be seen in the following measurements
taken on a setup of a VM over a VF, connected to OVS via the VF
representor, to an external host:
Before current change:
TCP Throughput [Gb/s]
VM to external host ~ 7.2
With the current change (measured with a striding RQ):
TCP Throughput [Gb/s]
VM to external host ~ 23.5
Each representor now consumes 2 [MB] of memory for its packet
buffers.
Signed-off-by: Gavi Teitz <gavi@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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