net/mlx4_en: Ignore budget on TX napi polling
It is recommended that TX work not count against the quota.
The cost of TX packet liberation is a minute percentage of what it costs to
process an RX frame. Furthermore, that SKB freeing makes memory available for
other paths in the stack.
Give the TX a larger budget and be more aggressive about cleaning up the Tx
descriptors this budget could be changed using ethtool:
$ ethtool -C eth1 tx-frames-irq <budget>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index e94d96f..7345c43 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -2473,6 +2473,7 @@
MLX4_WQE_CTRL_SOLICITED);
priv->num_tx_rings_p_up = mdev->profile.num_tx_rings_p_up;
priv->tx_ring_num = prof->tx_ring_num;
+ priv->tx_work_limit = MLX4_EN_DEFAULT_TX_WORK;
priv->tx_ring = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mlx4_en_tx_ring *) * MAX_TX_RINGS,
GFP_KERNEL);