From 489ce7a46306052ab4ef26c6305051c5f1b24bb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Brandeburg Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:57:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] i40e/i40evf: improve Tx performance with a small tweak Add a prefetch for the next Tx descriptor to be used when we know there are more coming. Change-ID: Ibb9acab11d508eec2db7da795df74debc16eeacb Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Tested-by: Jim Young 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 9a4f2bc..1fe230d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c @@ -2616,6 +2616,8 @@ static inline void i40e_tx_map(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, struct sk_buff *skb, netif_xmit_stopped(netdev_get_tx_queue(tx_ring->netdev, tx_ring->queue_index))) writel(i, tx_ring->tail); + else + prefetchw(tx_desc + 1); return; diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c index 395f32f..0f0e185 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c @@ -1841,6 +1841,8 @@ static inline void i40evf_tx_map(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, struct sk_buff *skb, netif_xmit_stopped(netdev_get_tx_queue(tx_ring->netdev, tx_ring->queue_index))) writel(i, tx_ring->tail); + else + prefetchw(tx_desc + 1); return; -- 2.7.4