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ixgbe: Update code to better handle incrementing page count
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:36:03 +0000 (08:36 -0800)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:02:44 +0000 (04:02 -0800)
commit1b56cf49f5b0bab9ad4eab18f9b0aee1929afd89
treeb5ca5f804f6c90de93efde85b822953850283396
parentf3213d9321735aa8e252d87796d5db43d4b830ec
ixgbe: Update code to better handle incrementing page count

Batch the page count updates instead of doing them one at a time.  By doing
this we can improve the overall performance as the atomic increment
operations can be expensive due to the fact that on x86 they are locked
operations which can cause stalls.  By doing bulk updates we can
consolidate the stall which should help to improve the overall receive
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c