xen-netback: always fully coalesce guest Rx packets

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Always fully coalesce guest Rx packets into the minimum number of ring
slots.  Reducing the number of slots per packet has significant
performance benefits when receiving off-host traffic.

Results from XenServer's performance benchmarks:

                         Baseline    Full coalesce
Interhost VM receive      7.2 Gb/s   11 Gb/s
Interhost aggregate      24 Gb/s     24 Gb/s
Intrahost single stream  14 Gb/s     14 Gb/s
Intrahost aggregate      34 Gb/s     34 Gb/s

However, this can increase the number of grant ops per packet which
decreases performance of backend (dom0) to VM traffic (by ~10%)
/unless/ grant copy has been optimized for adjacent ops with the same
source or destination (see "grant-table: defer releasing pages
acquired in a grant copy"[1] expected in Xen 4.6).

[1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-01/msg01118.html

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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David Vrabel 2015-01-20 14:49:52 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h

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drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c

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