net: add netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on()

Add a helper for drivers wanting to set SW IRQ coalescing
by default. The related sysfs attributes can be used to
override the default values.

Follow Jakub's suggestion and put this functionality into
net core so that drivers wanting to use software interrupt
coalescing per default don't have to open-code it.

Note that this function needs to be called before the
netdevice is registered.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7627c475d991b..b76fb37b381e9 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10517,6 +10517,22 @@ void netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops(struct net_device *dev,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops);
 
+/**
+ * netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on() - enable SW IRQ coalescing by default
+ * @dev: netdev to enable the IRQ coalescing on
+ *
+ * Sets a conservative default for SW IRQ coalescing. Users can use
+ * sysfs attributes to override the default values.
+ */
+void netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	WARN_ON(dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED);
+
+	dev->gro_flush_timeout = 20000;
+	dev->napi_defer_hard_irqs = 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_sw_irq_coalesce_default_on);
+
 void netdev_freemem(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	char *addr = (char *)dev - dev->padded;