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Petr Machata says:
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mlxsw: Add support of latency TLV
Amit Cohen writes:
Ethernet Management Datagrams (EMADs) are Ethernet packets sent between
the driver and device's firmware. They are used to pass various
configurations to the device, but also to get events (e.g., port up)
from it. After the Ethernet header, these packets are built in a TLV
format.
This is the structure of EMADs:
* Ethernet header
* Operation TLV
* String TLV (optional)
* Latency TLV (optional)
* Reg TLV
* End TLV
The latency of each EMAD is measured by firmware. The driver can get the
measurement via latency TLV which can be added to each EMAD. This TLV is
optional, when EMAD is sent with this TLV, the EMAD's response will include
the TLV and will contain the firmware measurement.
Add support for Latency TLV and use it by default for all EMADs (see
more information in commit messages). The latency measurements can be
processed using BPF program for example, to create a histogram and average
of the latency per register. In addition, it is possible to measure the
end-to-end latency, so then the latency of the software overhead can be
calculated. This information can be useful to improve the driver
performance.
See an example of output of BPF tool which presents these measurements:
$ ./emadlatency -f -a
Tracing EMADs... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
Register write = RALUE (0x8013)
E2E Measurements:
average = 23 usecs, total = 32052693 usecs, count = 1337061
usecs : count distribution
0 -> 1 : 0 | |
2 -> 3 : 0 | |
4 -> 7 : 0 | |
8 -> 15 : 0 | |
16 -> 31 : 1290814 |*********************************|
32 -> 63 : 45339 |* |
64 -> 127 : 532 | |
128 -> 255 : 247 | |
256 -> 511 : 57 | |
512 -> 1023 : 26 | |
1024 -> 2047 : 33 | |
2048 -> 4095 : 0 | |
4096 -> 8191 : 10 | |
8192 -> 16383 : 1 | |
16384 -> 32767 : 1 | |
32768 -> 65535 : 1 | |
Firmware Measurements:
average = 10 usecs, total = 13884128 usecs, count = 1337061
usecs : count distribution
0 -> 1 : 0 | |
2 -> 3 : 0 | |
4 -> 7 : 0 | |
8 -> 15 : 1337035 |*********************************|
16 -> 31 : 17 | |
32 -> 63 : 7 | |
64 -> 127 : 0 | |
128 -> 255 : 2 | |
Diff between measurements: 13 usecs
Patch set overview:
Patches #1-#3 add support for querying MGIR, to know if string TLV and
latency TLV are supported
Patches #4-#5 add some relevant fields to support latency TLV
Patch #6 adds support of latency TLV
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1674123673.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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