[v2,4/4] net/ena: enable WC

Message ID 1530191753-18689-5-git-send-email-rk@semihalf.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series support for write combining |

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Commit Message

Rafal Kozik June 28, 2018, 1:15 p.m. UTC
  Write combining (WC) increases NIC performance by making better
utilization of PCI bus. ENA PMD may make usage of this feature.

To enable it load igb_uio driver with wc_activate set to 1.

Signed-off-by: Rafal Kozik <rk@semihalf.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Michal Krawczyk July 2, 2018, 6:52 a.m. UTC | #1
2018-06-28 15:15 GMT+02:00 Rafal Kozik <rk@semihalf.com>:
>
> Write combining (WC) increases NIC performance by making better
> utilization of PCI bus. ENA PMD may make usage of this feature.
>
> To enable it load igb_uio driver with wc_activate set to 1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafal Kozik <rk@semihalf.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Krawczyk <mk@semihalf.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c
> index 9ae73e3..1870edf 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c
> @@ -2210,7 +2210,8 @@ static int eth_ena_pci_remove(struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
>
>  static struct rte_pci_driver rte_ena_pmd = {
>         .id_table = pci_id_ena_map,
> -       .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC,
> +       .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC |
> +                    RTE_PCI_DRV_WC_ACTIVATE,
>         .probe = eth_ena_pci_probe,
>         .remove = eth_ena_pci_remove,
>  };
> --
> 2.7.4
>
  

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c
index 9ae73e3..1870edf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c
@@ -2210,7 +2210,8 @@  static int eth_ena_pci_remove(struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
 
 static struct rte_pci_driver rte_ena_pmd = {
 	.id_table = pci_id_ena_map,
-	.drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC,
+	.drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC |
+		     RTE_PCI_DRV_WC_ACTIVATE,
 	.probe = eth_ena_pci_probe,
 	.remove = eth_ena_pci_remove,
 };