From d3398a4f1887eee46c22b37f6245faa6c51b130b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tariq Toukan Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 10:46:57 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: RX, Prefetch the xdp_frame data area A loaded XDP program might write to the xdp_frame data area, prefetchw() it to avoid a potential cache miss. Performance tests: ConnectX-5, XDP_TX packet rate, single ring. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Before: 13,172,976 pps After: 13,456,248 pps 2% gain. Fixes: 22f453988194 ("net/mlx5e: Support XDP over Striding RQ") Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c index e33ca03b2100..15d8ae28c040 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c @@ -1099,6 +1099,7 @@ mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, struct mlx5e_mpw_info *wi, dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu(rq->pdev, di->addr, head_offset, frag_size, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); + prefetchw(va); /* xdp_frame data area */ prefetch(data); rcu_read_lock();