openwrt/target/linux/bcm53xx
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
..
base-files bcm53xx: enable & setup packet steering 2022-07-08 16:18:25 +02:00
files/arch/arm/boot/compressed bcm53xx: move bcm47xx_sprom driver to 4.4 specific directory 2017-02-06 10:18:20 +01:00
generic bcm53xx: add generic subtarget 2019-09-02 22:38:47 +02:00
image bcm53xx: enable Linksys EA6300 & EA9200 builds 2021-12-13 14:01:14 +01:00
patches-5.4 bcm53xx: disable GRO by default at kernel level 2022-07-08 16:18:25 +02:00
profiles target: use SPDX license identifiers on Makefiles 2021-02-10 15:47:18 +01:00
config-5.4 kernel: backport 5.13 mtd partitioning changes 2021-04-08 11:25:41 +02:00
Makefile target: use SPDX license identifiers on Makefiles 2021-02-10 15:47:18 +01:00
modules.mk target: use SPDX license identifiers on Makefiles 2021-02-10 15:47:18 +01:00