i40e, xsk: remove HW descriptor prefetch in AF_XDP path

The software prefetching of HW descriptors has a negative impact on
the performance. Therefore, it is now removed.

Performance for the rx_drop benchmark increased with 2%.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index 8500e1c1a16b7c418b13350616d77ed3386858c9..b43bc20f701d62cfdc367233c18a16c50e1038da 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -2295,6 +2295,19 @@ void i40e_finalize_xdp_rx(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, unsigned int xdp_res)
        }
 }
 
+/**
+ * i40e_inc_ntc: Advance the next_to_clean index
+ * @rx_ring: Rx ring
+ **/
+static void i40e_inc_ntc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring)
+{
+       u32 ntc = rx_ring->next_to_clean + 1;
+
+       ntc = (ntc < rx_ring->count) ? ntc : 0;
+       rx_ring->next_to_clean = ntc;
+       prefetch(I40E_RX_DESC(rx_ring, ntc));
+}
+
 /**
  * i40e_clean_rx_irq - Clean completed descriptors from Rx ring - bounce buf
  * @rx_ring: rx descriptor ring to transact packets on

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx_common.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx_common.h
index 667c4dc4b39f79193e0fe99bfbc6d7a3daf6babc..1397dd3c1c573502d21ee143791606eeabdc9896 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx_common.h
@@ -99,19 +99,6 @@ static inline bool i40e_rx_is_programming_status(u64 qword1)
        return qword1 & I40E_RXD_QW1_LENGTH_SPH_MASK;
 }
 
-/**
- * i40e_inc_ntc: Advance the next_to_clean index
- * @rx_ring: Rx ring
- **/
-static inline void i40e_inc_ntc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring)
-{
-       u32 ntc = rx_ring->next_to_clean + 1;
-
-       ntc = (ntc < rx_ring->count) ? ntc : 0;
-       rx_ring->next_to_clean = ntc;
-       prefetch(I40E_RX_DESC(rx_ring, ntc));
-}
-
 void i40e_xsk_clean_rx_ring(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring);
 void i40e_xsk_clean_tx_ring(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring);
 bool i40e_xsk_any_rx_ring_enabled(struct i40e_vsi *vsi);

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_xsk.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_xsk.c
index 2a1153d8957baa9705bb9af487ed66c3b0c408b1..cf48758447c2a2b57f34331f56551e11febe71d6 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_xsk.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_xsk.c
@@ -257,6 +257,18 @@ static struct sk_buff *i40e_construct_skb_zc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring,
        return skb;
 }
 
+/**
+ * i40e_inc_ntc: Advance the next_to_clean index
+ * @rx_ring: Rx ring
+ **/
+static void i40e_inc_ntc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring)
+{
+       u32 ntc = rx_ring->next_to_clean + 1;
+
+       ntc = (ntc < rx_ring->count) ? ntc : 0;
+       rx_ring->next_to_clean = ntc;
+}
+
 /**
  * i40e_clean_rx_irq_zc - Consumes Rx packets from the hardware ring
  * @rx_ring: Rx ring