Browse Source

net: mvneta: prefetch next rx descriptor instead of current one

Currently, the mvneta driver tries to prefetch the current Rx
descriptor during read. Tests have shown that prefetching the
next one instead increases general performance by about 1% on
HTTP traffic.

Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
willy tarreau 12 years ago
parent
commit
34e4179df6
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 1 1
      drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c

+ 1 - 1
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c

@@ -611,6 +611,7 @@ mvneta_rxq_next_desc_get(struct mvneta_rx_queue *rxq)
 	int rx_desc = rxq->next_desc_to_proc;
 
 	rxq->next_desc_to_proc = MVNETA_QUEUE_NEXT_DESC(rxq, rx_desc);
+	prefetch(rxq->descs + rxq->next_desc_to_proc);
 	return rxq->descs + rx_desc;
 }
 
@@ -1442,7 +1443,6 @@ static int mvneta_rx(struct mvneta_port *pp, int rx_todo,
 		u32 rx_status;
 		int rx_bytes, err;
 
-		prefetch(rx_desc);
 		rx_done++;
 		rx_filled++;
 		rx_status = rx_desc->status;