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Add ethtool support to configure the IRQ coalescing behavior. Support separate timers for Rx and Tx for time based coalescing. For frame based configuration, currently we only support the Rx side. The hardware allows configuration of descriptor count instead of frame count requiring conversion between the two. We assume 2 descriptors per frame, one for the metadata and one for the data segment. When rx-frames are not configured, we set the RX descriptor count to half the ring size as a fail safe. Default configuration: ethtool -c eth0 | grep -E "rx-usecs:|tx-usecs:|rx-frames:" rx-usecs: 30 rx-frames: 0 tx-usecs: 35 IRQ rate test: With single iperf flow we monitor IRQ rate while changing the tx-usesc and rx-usecs to high and low values. ethtool -C eth0 rx-frames 8192 rx-usecs 150 tx-usecs 150 irq/sec 13k irq/sec 14k irq/sec 14k ethtool -C eth0 rx-frames 8192 rx-usecs 10 tx-usecs 10 irq/sec 27k irq/sec 28k irq/sec 28k Validating the use of extack: ethtool -C eth0 rx-frames 16384 netlink error: fbnic: rx_frames is above device max netlink error: Invalid argument Signed-off-by: Mohsin Bashir <mohsin.bashr@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250218023520.2038010-1-mohsin.bashr@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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