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bcm4908: enable & setup packet steering
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Without packet steering NAT masquarade speed on BCM4908 /jumps/ between
two speeds:
1. 826 Mb/s (±3 Mb/s)
2. 909 Mb/s (±8 Mb/s)
and it never reaches ~940 Mb/s.

Proper packet steering can improve it. Below are testing results for
running iperf TCP traffic from LAN to WAN. They were used to pick up
golden values.

┌──────────┬──────────┬───────────┐
│   eth0   │  br-lan  │   speed   │
│ rps_cpus │ rps_cpus │   [Mbps]  │
├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┤
│        0 │        0 │ 743 / 804 │
│        0 │        1 │ 738 / 821 │
│        0 │        2 │     ✓ 940 │
│        0 │        4 │     ✓ 938 │
│        0 │        8 │     ✓ 941 │
├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┤
│        1 │        0 │       829 │
│        1 │        1 │       829 │
│        1 │        2 │     ✓ 942 │
│        1 │        4 │     ✓ 941 │
│        1 │        8 │     ✓ 941 │
├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┤
│        2 │        0 │     ✓ 942 │
│        2 │        1 │       926 │
│        2 │        2 │     ✓ 942 │
│        2 │        4 │     ✓ 942 │
│        2 │        8 │     ✓ 941 │
├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┤
│        4 │        0 │     ✓ 941 │
│        4 │        1 │       925 │
│        4 │        2 │     ✓ 941 │
│        4 │        4 │     ✓ 941 │
│        4 │        8 │     ✓ 941 │
├──────────┼──────────┼───────────┤
│        8 │        0 │     ✓ 942 │
│        8 │        1 │       925 │
│        8 │        2 │     ✓ 941 │
│        8 │        4 │     ✓ 942 │
│        8 │        8 │     ✓ 942 │
└──────────┴──────────┴───────────┘

Ref: fcbd396 ("bcm53xx: enable & setup packet steering")
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
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46 changes: 46 additions & 0 deletions target/linux/bcm4908/base-files/etc/init.d/fastnetwork
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#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common

START=25
USE_PROCD=1

start_service() {
reload_service
}

service_triggers() {
procd_add_reload_trigger "network"
procd_add_reload_trigger "firewall"
procd_add_reload_interface_trigger "lan"
}

reload_service() {
local packet_steering="$(uci -q get network.@globals[0].packet_steering)"
local num_cpus="$(grep -c "^processor.*:" /proc/cpuinfo)"
local flow_offloading="$(uci -q get firewall.@defaults[0].flow_offloading)"
local flow_offloading_hw="$(uci -q get firewall.@defaults[0].flow_offloading_hw)"
local rps_eth0=0
local rps_br_lan=0

[ "$num_cpus" -le 1 ] && return

[ "$packet_steering" = 1 ] && {
if [ ${flow_offloading_hw:-0} -gt 0 ]; then
# HW offloading
# Not implemented
:
elif [ ${flow_offloading:-0} -gt 0 ]; then
# SW offloading
# BCM4908 always reaches ~940 Mb/s
:
else
# Default
case "$num_cpus" in
2) rps_eth0=2; rps_br_lan=2;;
4) rps_eth0=e; rps_br_lan=e;;
esac
fi
}

echo $rps_eth0 > /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus
echo $rps_br_lan > /sys/class/net/br-lan/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus
}
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

uci set network.@globals[0].packet_steering="1"

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