bcm53xx: copy bgmac revert (performance fix) to 5.15
authorRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 05:58:00 +0000 (07:58 +0200)
committerRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:04:31 +0000 (08:04 +0200)
Ref: 230c9da963aa ("bcm53xx: revert bgmac back to the old limited max frame size")
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
target/linux/bcm53xx/patches-5.15/700-bgmac-reduce-max-frame-size-to-support-just-MTU-1500.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/target/linux/bcm53xx/patches-5.15/700-bgmac-reduce-max-frame-size-to-support-just-MTU-1500.patch b/target/linux/bcm53xx/patches-5.15/700-bgmac-reduce-max-frame-size-to-support-just-MTU-1500.patch
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+From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= <rafal@milecki.pl>
+Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:10:47 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] bgmac: reduce max frame size to support just MTU 1500
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+
+bgmac allocates new replacement buffer before handling each received
+frame. Allocating & DMA-preparing 9724 B each time consumes a lot of CPU
+time. Ideally bgmac should just respect currently set MTU but it isn't
+the case right now. For now just revert back to the old limited frame
+size.
+
+This change bumps NAT masquarade speed by ~95%.
+
+Ref: 8c7da63978f1 ("bgmac: configure MTU and add support for frames beyond 8192 byte size")
+Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
+---
+ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h | 3 +--
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h
++++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h
+@@ -328,8 +328,7 @@
+ #define BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET                 30              /* There are 2 unused bytes between header and real data */
+ #define BGMAC_RX_BUF_OFFSET                   (NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN - \
+                                                BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET)
+-/* Jumbo frame size with FCS */
+-#define BGMAC_RX_MAX_FRAME_SIZE                       9724
++#define BGMAC_RX_MAX_FRAME_SIZE                       1536
+ #define BGMAC_RX_BUF_SIZE                     (BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET + BGMAC_RX_MAX_FRAME_SIZE)
+ #define BGMAC_RX_ALLOC_SIZE                   (SKB_DATA_ALIGN(BGMAC_RX_BUF_SIZE + BGMAC_RX_BUF_OFFSET) + \
+                                                SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)))