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net/mlx5e: Fix small packet threshold
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RX packet headers are meant to be contained in SKB linear part,
and chose a threshold of 128.
It turns out this is not enough, i.e. for IPv6 packet over VxLAN.
In this case, UDP/IPv4 needs 42 bytes, GENEVE header is 8 bytes,
and 86 bytes for TCP/IPv6. In total 136 bytes that is more than
current 128 bytes. In this case expand header flow is reached.
The warning in skb_try_coalesce() caused by a wrong truesize
was already fixed here:
commit 158f323 ("net: adjust skb->truesize in pskb_expand_head()").
Still, we prefer to totally avoid the expand header flow for performance reasons.
Tested regular TCP_STREAM with iperf for 1 and 8 streams, no degradation was found.

Fixes: 461017c ("net/mlx5e: Support RX multi-packet WQE (Striding RQ)")
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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Eugenia Emantayev authored and Saeed Mahameed committed Apr 22, 2017
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
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#define MLX5E_VALID_NUM_MTTS(num_mtts) (MLX5_MTT_OCTW(num_mtts) - 1 <= U16_MAX)

#define MLX5_UMR_ALIGN (2048)
#define MLX5_MPWRQ_SMALL_PACKET_THRESHOLD (128)
#define MLX5_MPWRQ_SMALL_PACKET_THRESHOLD (256)

#define MLX5E_PARAMS_DEFAULT_LRO_WQE_SZ (64 * 1024)
#define MLX5E_DEFAULT_LRO_TIMEOUT 32
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