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| author | Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com> | 2020-10-08 16:12:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> | 2020-10-09 16:35:01 +0200 |
| commit | c3f01fdcedf9459b2a27b22287414ab3a0d5d818 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e656fa260264bbc9e0f7518a030ba39d05c6e89 /net | |
| parent | 1e9259eca8fdf04b8d12ec093711a73cde19aed5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c3f01fdcedf9459b2a27b22287414ab3a0d5d818.tar.gz | |
xsk: Introduce padding between ring pointers
Introduce one cache line worth of padding between the producer and consumer pointers in all the lockless rings. This so that the HW adjacency prefetcher will not prefetch the consumer pointer when the producer pointer is used and vice versa. This improves throughput performance for the l2fwd sample app with 2% on my machine with HW prefetching turned on. Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1602166338-21378-1-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/xdp/xsk_queue.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h b/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h index dc1dd5ef70d1..cdb9cf3cd136 100644 --- a/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h +++ b/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ struct xdp_ring { u32 producer ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; + /* Hinder the adjacent cache prefetcher to prefetch the consumer + * pointer if the producer pointer is touched and vice versa. + */ + u32 pad ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; u32 consumer ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; u32 flags; }; |