xsk: Introduce padding between ring pointers
authorMagnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Thu, 8 Oct 2020 14:12:18 +0000 (16:12 +0200)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Fri, 9 Oct 2020 14:35:01 +0000 (16:35 +0200)
commitc3f01fdcedf9459b2a27b22287414ab3a0d5d818
tree3e656fa260264bbc9e0f7518a030ba39d05c6e89
parent1e9259eca8fdf04b8d12ec093711a73cde19aed5
xsk: Introduce padding between ring pointers

Introduce one cache line worth of padding between the producer and
consumer pointers in all the lockless rings. This so that the HW
adjacency prefetcher will not prefetch the consumer pointer when the
producer pointer is used and vice versa. This improves throughput
performance for the l2fwd sample app with 2% on my machine with HW
prefetching turned on.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1602166338-21378-1-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
net/xdp/xsk_queue.h