[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] net/mlx5: fix instruction hotspot on replenishing Rx buffer

Yongseok Koh yskoh at mellanox.com
Thu Jan 10 23:40:30 CET 2019


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>
---

v4:
* no change

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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