[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2] ixgbevf: Change the relaxed order settings in VF driver for sparc

Babu Moger babu.moger at oracle.com
Thu Apr 21 22:56:49 UTC 2016


We noticed performance issues with VF interface on sparc compared
to PF. Setting the RX to IXGBE_DCA_RXCTRL_DATA_WRO_EN brings it
on far with PF. Also this matches to the default sparc setting in
PF driver.

Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com>
---
v2:
  Alexander had concerns about this negativily affecting other architectures.
  Added CONFIG_SPARC check so this should not affect other architectures.

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
index 0ea14c0..3596e0b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
@@ -1748,9 +1748,15 @@ static void ixgbevf_configure_rx_ring(struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter,
 	IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_VFRDLEN(reg_idx),
 			ring->count * sizeof(union ixgbe_adv_rx_desc));
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_SPARC
 	/* enable relaxed ordering */
 	IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_VFDCA_RXCTRL(reg_idx),
 			IXGBE_DCA_RXCTRL_DESC_RRO_EN);
+#else
+	IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_VFDCA_RXCTRL(reg_idx),
+			IXGBE_DCA_RXCTRL_DESC_RRO_EN |
+			IXGBE_DCA_RXCTRL_DATA_WRO_EN);
+#endif
 
 	/* reset head and tail pointers */
 	IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_VFRDH(reg_idx), 0);
-- 
1.7.1



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