From 016890b99482745646de091d795384efd83f5d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Brandeburg Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:15:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] i40e/i40evf: enable prefetch of Tx descriptors during cleanup Performance can be improved a bit by imitating ixgbe and using prefetch to get us the next Tx descriptor. Change-ID: Ice7ffd4cd0ce87c35295059bdb7972a7f53723aa Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c index a60b840..f5a50b9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c @@ -770,6 +770,8 @@ static bool i40e_clean_tx_irq(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, int budget) tx_desc = I40E_TX_DESC(tx_ring, 0); } + prefetch(tx_desc); + /* update budget accounting */ budget--; } while (likely(budget)); diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c index 1c2637b..d9f3db5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c @@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ static bool i40e_clean_tx_irq(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, int budget) tx_desc = I40E_TX_DESC(tx_ring, 0); } + prefetch(tx_desc); + /* update budget accounting */ budget--; } while (likely(budget)); -- 2.7.4