[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/mlx5: fix instruction hotspot on replenishing Rx buffer
Shahaf Shuler
shahafs at mellanox.com
Thu Jan 10 20:10:04 CET 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:35 PM, Yongseok Koh:
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/mlx5: fix instruction hotspot on
> replenishing Rx buffer
>
> On replenishing Rx buffers for vectorized Rx, mbuf->buf_addr isn't needed to
> be accessed as it is static and easily calculated from the mbuf address.
> Accessing the mbuf content causes unnecessary load stall and it is worsened on
> ARM.
>
> Fixes: 545b884b1da3 ("net/mlx5: fix buffer address posting in SSE Rx")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
> ---
>
> v3:
> * rte_mbuf_buf_addr_default() -> rte_mbuf_buf_addr()
>
> v2:
> * use the newly introduced API - rte_mbuf_buf_addr_default()
> * fix error in assert
>
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h
> b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h
> index fda7004e2d..989a1fdce5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h
> @@ -102,8 +102,10 @@ mlx5_rx_replenish_bulk_mbuf(struct mlx5_rxq_data
> *rxq, uint16_t n)
> return;
> }
> for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
> - wq[i].addr = rte_cpu_to_be_64((uintptr_t)elts[i]->buf_addr +
> - RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM);
> + void *buf_addr = rte_mbuf_buf_addr(elts[i], rxq->mp);
> +
> + assert(buf_addr == elts[i]->buf_addr);
> + wq[i].addr = rte_cpu_to_be_64((uintptr_t)buf_addr +
> +RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM);
> /* If there's only one MR, no need to replace LKey in WQE. */
> if (unlikely(mlx5_mr_btree_len(&rxq->mr_ctrl.cache_bh) > 1))
> wq[i].lkey = mlx5_rx_mb2mr(rxq, elts[i]);
> --
> 2.11.0
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