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authorTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>2017-02-15 17:05:39 +0200
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>2017-04-30 16:03:17 +0300
commitad78af9b88f3d12134d6406468e7798e65c385c0 (patch)
tree770ea9521b351d2277cea39662492d64d0be7156 /drivers
parent1f5b1e47ee08f6c623db599b6c23ce7c20b79458 (diff)
downloadlinux-ad78af9b88f3d12134d6406468e7798e65c385c0.tar.bz2
net/mlx5e: Use prefetchw when a write is to follow
"prefetchw()" prefetches the cacheline for write. Use it for skb->data, as soon we'll be copying the packet header there. Performance: Single-stream packet-rate tested with pktgen. Packets are dropped in tc level to zoom into driver data-path. Larger gain is expected for smaller packets, as less time is spent on handling SKB fragments, making the path shorter and the improvement more significant. --------------------------------------------- packet size | before | after | gain | 64B | 4,113,306 | 4,778,720 | 16% | 1024B | 3,633,819 | 3,950,593 | 8.7% | Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
index d717573b73da..7b1566f0ae58 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ void mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, struct mlx5_cqe64 *cqe)
goto mpwrq_cqe_out;
}
- prefetch(skb->data);
+ prefetchw(skb->data);
cqe_bcnt = mpwrq_get_cqe_byte_cnt(cqe);
mlx5e_mpwqe_fill_rx_skb(rq, cqe, wi, cqe_bcnt, skb);