stmmac mitigation and ethtool coalesce parameters
From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-22 07:14:16
Hello I'm reworking the mitigation schema in the stmmac and removing the old and dead STMMAC_TIMER code. On new chips we have an HW RX-Watchdog that can be used for mitigating the Rx-interrupts and first results look promising. Before posting the patches I have a doubt about the ethtool coalesce parameters to use in the driver to tune the following parameters: - On Rx-side I have: a parameter that is the RI Watchdog Timer count. It indicates the number of system clock cycles. - On Tx-side, the mitigation schema I'm using is based on a SW timer that calls the tx function (stmmac_tx) to reclaim the resource after transmitting the frames. Also there is another parameter (like a threshold) used to program the descriptors avoiding to set the interrupt on completion bit in when the frame is sent (xmit). This means that the stmmac_tx can be called by the ISR too. This approach is showing really good figures as well. so I wonder which are the appropriate ethtool coalesce parameters to use? Or could I tune them by using sysfs entries? Welcome advice. Peppe