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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sieng Piaw Liew <liew.s.piaw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:07:47 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] bcm63xx: enetsw: switch to netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align

Increases packet processing performance by 30%.
Tested on BCM6328 320 MHz and iperf3 -M 512 for packet/sec performance.

Before:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-30.00  sec   120 MBytes  33.7 Mbits/sec  277             sender
[  4]   0.00-30.00  sec   120 MBytes  33.5 Mbits/sec                  receiver

After:
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-30.00  sec   155 MBytes  43.3 Mbits/sec  354             sender
[  4]   0.00-30.00  sec   154 MBytes  43.1 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Signed-off-by: Sieng Piaw Liew <liew.s.piaw@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c
@@ -239,7 +239,10 @@ static int bcm_enet_refill_rx(struct net
 		desc = &priv->rx_desc_cpu[desc_idx];
 
 		if (!priv->rx_skb[desc_idx]) {
-			skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, priv->rx_skb_size);
+			if (priv->enet_is_sw)
+				skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, priv->rx_skb_size);
+			else
+				skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, priv->rx_skb_size);
 			if (!skb)
 				break;
 			priv->rx_skb[desc_idx] = skb;