From patchwork Fri Sep 9 03:39:26 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Zhihong Wang X-Patchwork-Id: 15749 X-Patchwork-Delegate: yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C12803B; Fri, 9 Sep 2016 12:47:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7136CC9 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2016 12:47:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Sep 2016 03:47:25 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos; i="5.30,304,1470726000"; d="scan'208"; a="1053571908" Received: from unknown (HELO dpdk5.sh.intel.com) ([10.239.129.118]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Sep 2016 03:47:23 -0700 From: Zhihong Wang To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, Zhihong Wang Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 23:39:26 -0400 Message-Id: <1473392368-84903-5-git-send-email-zhihong.wang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1473392368-84903-1-git-send-email-zhihong.wang@intel.com> References: <1471319402-112998-1-git-send-email-zhihong.wang@intel.com> <1473392368-84903-1-git-send-email-zhihong.wang@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] vhost: add desc prefetch X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" This patch adds descriptor prefetch to hide cache access latency. Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang --- lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c index 6f63968..b38f18f 100644 --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c @@ -302,6 +302,12 @@ rte_vhost_enqueue_burst(int vid, uint16_t queue_id, /* start enqueuing packets 1 by 1 */ avail_idx = *((volatile uint16_t *)&vq->avail->idx); while (pkt_left && avail_idx != vq->last_used_idx) { + /* prefetch the next desc */ + if (pkt_left > 1 && avail_idx != vq->last_used_idx + 1) + rte_prefetch0(&vq->desc[vq->avail->ring[ + (vq->last_used_idx + 1) & + (vq->size - 1)]]); + if (enqueue_packet(dev, vq, avail_idx, pkts[pkt_idx], is_mrg_rxbuf)) break;