From patchwork Tue Sep 22 08:21:35 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Marvin Liu X-Patchwork-Id: 78248 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B40A04E1; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:25:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB621D582; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:25:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga12.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [192.55.52.136]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F49DE0 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:25:58 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: elouxiDaPT1mi1+CC5nXcvvoTbSKJjqha+0yVY8XwPmMN3Xm9DrKJX2GdFCsYdxlsQNMBXMBcT 8rfCmINd+H8Q== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9751"; a="140040508" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,290,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="140040508" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by fmsmga106.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 22 Sep 2020 01:25:57 -0700 IronPort-SDR: 3C4IPRUbyLdztGJbXpjsVmJjHNmhRHxbBl3fP5gi2nqL2dwwyKLTgYAjPNqMOaTxzblP/TF3No R3OhcK1h195Q== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,290,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="382237868" Received: from npg-dpdk-virtual-marvin-dev.sh.intel.com ([10.67.119.56]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Sep 2020 01:25:56 -0700 From: Marvin Liu To: bruce.richardson@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Marvin Liu Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:21:35 +0800 Message-Id: <20200922082135.62240-1-yong.liu@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: enable packet data prefetch X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Data prefetch instruction can preload data into cpu’s hierarchical cache before data access. Virtualized data paths like virtio utilized this feature for acceleration. Since most modern cpus have support prefetch function, we can enable packet data prefetch as default. Signed-off-by: Marvin Liu diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build index 69f2aeb605..a0c828a437 100644 --- a/config/meson.build +++ b/config/meson.build @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ if not is_windows add_project_link_arguments('-Wl,--no-as-needed', language: 'c') endif +# do prefetch of packet data +dpdk_conf.set('RTE_PMD_PACKET_PREFETCH', 1) + # use pthreads if available for the platform if not is_windows add_project_link_arguments('-pthread', language: 'c')