We can increase the efficiency of rx path by using buffers to receive
packets then build SKBs around them just before passing into the network
stack. In contrast, preallocating SKBs too early reduces CPU cache
efficiency.
Performance is slightly increased but the changes allow more
potential optimizations.
Signed-off-by: Sieng Piaw Liew <liew.s.piaw@gmail.com>
[improve code format]
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
bmips is using Broadcom B53 DSA driver which means the ethernet driver
must compensate for 6 bytes tags from the internal switch.
This means using NET_IP_ALIGN actually misaligns the skb, lowering
performance significantly. Therefore napi_alloc_skb() which uses
NET_IP_ALIGN is changed to netdev_alloc_skb().
Performance in iperf3 is increased from ~47Mbps to 52Mbps.
Signed-off-by: Sieng Piaw Liew <liew.s.piaw@gmail.com>
In the current state, nvmem cells are only detected on platform device.
To quickly fix the problem, we register the affected problematic driver
with the of_platform but that is more an hack than a real solution.
Backport from net-next the required patch so that nvmem can work also
with non-platform devices and rework our current patch.
Drop the mediatek and dsa workaround and rework the ath10k patches.
Rework every driver that use the of_get_mac_address api.
Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
This adds experimental ethernet support for BCM6318, BCM6328, BCM6362, BCM6368
and BCM63268.
BCM6358 needs a different driver, so there's no support for now.
Working devices:
- Comtrend AR-5315u
- Comtrend AR-5387un
- Comtrend VR-3025u
- Comtrend VR-3032u
Not working devices:
- Netgear DGND3700 v2 (no idea on how the external switch is connected)
- Huawei HG556a ver B (BCM6358 needs a separate driveer)
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
