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authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>2022-11-30 23:28:26 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2022-12-03 21:48:36 +0000
commitd93607082e982223cf92750f2d9039ff365b9d24 (patch)
tree38194a7928d5c9519f8c2fd25890f161d48331c6
parent65e6af6cebefbf7d8d8ac52b71cd251c2071ad00 (diff)
net: add netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on()
Add a helper for drivers wanting to set SW IRQ coalescing by default. The related sysfs attributes can be used to override the default values. Follow Jakub's suggestion and put this functionality into net core so that drivers wanting to use software interrupt coalescing per default don't have to open-code it. Note that this function needs to be called before the netdevice is registered. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h1
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c16
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 5aa35c58c342..f78db610ada5 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct xdp_buff;
void synchronize_net(void);
void netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops(struct net_device *dev,
const struct ethtool_ops *ops);
+void netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on(struct net_device *dev);
/* Backlog congestion levels */
#define NET_RX_SUCCESS 0 /* keep 'em coming, baby */
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7627c475d991..b76fb37b381e 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10517,6 +10517,22 @@ void netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops(struct net_device *dev,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops);
+/**
+ * netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on() - enable SW IRQ coalescing by default
+ * @dev: netdev to enable the IRQ coalescing on
+ *
+ * Sets a conservative default for SW IRQ coalescing. Users can use
+ * sysfs attributes to override the default values.
+ */
+void netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ WARN_ON(dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED);
+
+ dev->gro_flush_timeout = 20000;
+ dev->napi_defer_hard_irqs = 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on);
+
void netdev_freemem(struct net_device *dev)
{
char *addr = (char *)dev - dev->padded;