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[net-next,4/6] net: mvneta: prefetch next rx descriptor instead of current one

Message ID 1389525848-1814-5-git-send-email-w@1wt.eu
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Willy Tarreau Jan. 12, 2014, 11:24 a.m. UTC
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>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
index aa3a4f7..c7b37e0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/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;