[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/virtio: enable packet data prefetch on x86

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:54 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:45:25PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:40 PM Marvin Liu <yong.liu at intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Data prefetch instruction can preload data into cpu’s hierarchical
> > > cache before data access. Virtio datapath utilized this feature for
> > > data access acceleration. As config RTE_PMD_PACKET_PREFETCH was
> > > discarded, now packet data prefetch is enabled based on architecture.
> >
> > IIUC, this config item was set for all architectures under make compilation.
> >
> > $ git grep RTE_PMD_PACKET_PREFETCH v20.08 config/
> > v20.08:config/common_base:CONFIG_RTE_PMD_PACKET_PREFETCH=y
> >
> > Now that we switched to meson, it got lost and this patch only
> > restores it for x86.
> > Can other architectures check this?
> >
> If it was globally enabled before, it probably should just be added to
> config/rte_config.h file.
>

Restoring globally is the probably the best fix, yes.
I am still surprised nobody but x86 testers caught a perf regression.


-- 
David marchand