openwrt/target
Rafał Miłecki a50f5b3fb2 bcm53xx: enable & setup packet steering
Packet steering can improve NAT masquarade performance on Northstar by
40-50%. It makes reaching 940-942 Mb/s possible on BCM4708 (and
obviously BCM47094 too). Add scripts setting up the most optimal
Northstar setup.

Below are testing results for running iperf TCP traffic from LAN to WAN.
They were used to pick up golden values.

┌──────────┬──────────┬────────────────────┬────────────────────┐
│   eth0   │  br-lan  │ flow_offloading=0  │ flow_offloading=1  │
│          │          ├─────────┬──────────┼─────────┬──────────┤
│ rps_cpus │ rps_cpus │ BCM4708 │ BCM47094 │ BCM4708 │ BCM47094 │
├──────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┼──────────┤
│        0 │        0 │     387 │      671 │     707 │      941 │
│        0 │        1 │     343 │      576 │     705 │      941 │
│        0 │        2 │   ✓ 574 │    ✓ 941 │     704 │      940 │
│        1 │        0 │     320 │      549 │     561 │      941 │
│        1 │        1 │     327 │      551 │     553 │      941 │
│        1 │        2 │     523 │    ✓ 940 │     559 │      940 │
│        2 │        0 │     383 │      652 │   ✓ 940 │      941 │
│        2 │        1 │     448 │      754 │   ✓ 942 │      941 │
│        2 │        2 │     404 │      655 │   ✓ 941 │      941 │
└──────────┴──────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────┴──────────┘

Above tests were performed with all eth0 interrupts handled by CPU0.
Setting "echo 2 > /proc/irq/38/smp_affinity" was tested on BCM4708 but
it didn't increased speeds (just required different steering):

┌──────────┬──────────┬───────────┐
│   eth0   │  br-lan  │ flow_offl │
│   rx-0   │   rx-0   │ oading=0  │
│ rps_cpus │ rps_cpus │  BCM4708  │
├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┤
│        0 │        0 │       384 │
│        0 │        1 │     ✓ 574 │
│        0 │        2 │       348 │
│        1 │        0 │       383 │
│        1 │        1 │       412 │
│        1 │        2 │       448 │
│        2 │        0 │       321 │
│        2 │        1 │       520 │
│        2 │        2 │       327 │
└──────────┴──────────┴───────────┘

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
(cherry picked from commit fcbd39689e)
2022-07-08 16:18:25 +02:00
..
imagebuilder imagebuilder: fix broken image generation with external targets 2022-04-05 22:06:41 +02:00
linux bcm53xx: enable & setup packet steering 2022-07-08 16:18:25 +02:00
sdk sdk: unset BINARY_FOLDER and DOWNLOAD_FOLDER in final archives 2021-05-14 22:52:40 +02:00
toolchain target: fix copying of licenses for SDK/toolchain 2021-02-14 21:56:29 +01:00
Config.in build: define PWM_SUPPORT arch feature flag 2020-09-25 19:32:33 +02:00
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