[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] i40e: simplify SSE packet length extraction code

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Apr 14 18:02:37 CEST 2016


In Table 8-16 of the "Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 Datasheet" it is
stated that when the whole packet is written to a single buffer, the
header length field in the descriptor will be 0. This means that when
extracting the packet/data_len field from the descriptor in the driver
we do not need to mask out the extra header-length bits.

Inside the vector driver, this reduces the need to pull all four pktlen
fields into a single register to work on. Instead of a shift and mask,
we now need to only do a shift. Therefore, we can work on each descriptor
independently, processing each using one shift intrinsic and a blend.

This change makes the code shorter and easier to read, so we can pull it
into the main descriptor processing loop instead of needing its own
function. This in turn makes the descriptor processing in the loop as a
whole slightly easier to read as it's more linear.

In terms of performance, in testing this change shows little effect, with
single-core perf tests showing a very slight improvement.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec.c | 51 ++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec.c
index 9f67f9d..f7a62a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec.c
@@ -184,37 +184,7 @@ desc_to_olflags_v(__m128i descs[4], struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts)
 #define desc_to_olflags_v(desc, rx_pkts) do {} while (0)
 #endif
 
-#define PKTLEN_SHIFT     (6)
-#define PKTLEN_MASK      (0x3FFF)
-/* Handling the pkt len field is not aligned with 1byte, so shift is
- * needed to let it align
- */
-static inline void
-desc_pktlen_align(__m128i descs[4])
-{
-	__m128i pktlen0, pktlen1;
-
-	/* mask everything except pktlen field*/
-	const __m128i pktlen_msk = _mm_set_epi32(PKTLEN_MASK, PKTLEN_MASK,
-						PKTLEN_MASK, PKTLEN_MASK);
-
-	pktlen0 = _mm_unpackhi_epi32(descs[0], descs[2]);
-	pktlen1 = _mm_unpackhi_epi32(descs[1], descs[3]);
-	pktlen0 = _mm_unpackhi_epi32(pktlen0, pktlen1);
-
-	pktlen0 = _mm_srli_epi32(pktlen0, PKTLEN_SHIFT);
-	pktlen0 = _mm_and_si128(pktlen0, pktlen_msk);
-
-	pktlen0 = _mm_packs_epi32(pktlen0, pktlen0);
-
-	descs[3] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[3], pktlen0, 0x80);
-	pktlen0 = _mm_slli_epi64(pktlen0, 16);
-	descs[2] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[2], pktlen0, 0x80);
-	pktlen0 = _mm_slli_epi64(pktlen0, 16);
-	descs[1] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[1], pktlen0, 0x80);
-	pktlen0 = _mm_slli_epi64(pktlen0, 16);
-	descs[0] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[0], pktlen0, 0x80);
-}
+#define PKTLEN_SHIFT     10
 
  /*
  * Notice:
@@ -333,12 +303,17 @@ _recv_raw_pkts_vec(struct i40e_rx_queue *rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
 			rte_prefetch0(&rx_pkts[pos + 3]->cacheline1);
 		}
 
-		/*shift the pktlen field*/
-		desc_pktlen_align(descs);
-
 		/* avoid compiler reorder optimization */
 		rte_compiler_barrier();
 
+		/* pkt 3,4 shift the pktlen field to be 16-bit aligned*/
+		const __m128i len3 = _mm_slli_epi32(descs[3], PKTLEN_SHIFT);
+		const __m128i len2 = _mm_slli_epi32(descs[2], PKTLEN_SHIFT);
+
+		/* merge the now-aligned packet length fields back in */
+		descs[3] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[3], len3, 0x80);
+		descs[2] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[2], len2, 0x80);
+
 		/* D.1 pkt 3,4 convert format from desc to pktmbuf */
 		pkt_mb4 = _mm_shuffle_epi8(descs[3], shuf_msk);
 		pkt_mb3 = _mm_shuffle_epi8(descs[2], shuf_msk);
@@ -354,6 +329,14 @@ _recv_raw_pkts_vec(struct i40e_rx_queue *rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
 		pkt_mb4 = _mm_add_epi16(pkt_mb4, crc_adjust);
 		pkt_mb3 = _mm_add_epi16(pkt_mb3, crc_adjust);
 
+		/* pkt 1,2 shift the pktlen field to be 16-bit aligned*/
+		const __m128i len1 = _mm_slli_epi32(descs[1], PKTLEN_SHIFT);
+		const __m128i len0 = _mm_slli_epi32(descs[0], PKTLEN_SHIFT);
+
+		/* merge the now-aligned packet length fields back in */
+		descs[1] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[1], len1, 0x80);
+		descs[0] = _mm_blend_epi16(descs[0], len0, 0x80);
+
 		/* D.1 pkt 1,2 convert format from desc to pktmbuf */
 		pkt_mb2 = _mm_shuffle_epi8(descs[1], shuf_msk);
 		pkt_mb1 = _mm_shuffle_epi8(descs[0], shuf_msk);
-- 
2.5.5



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