[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: add new prefetch write variants

[Van Haaren, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2020 9:18 AM
> To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
> Cc: dev <dev at dpdk.org>; Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>; Jerin
> Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>; Ruifeng Wang (Arm Technology
> China) <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: add new prefetch write variants
> 
> Hello Harry,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 5:09 PM Harry van Haaren
> <harry.van.haaren at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > This commit adds a new rte_prefetch0_write() variants, suggesting to the
> > compiler to use a prefetch instruction with intention to write. As a
> > compiler builtin, the compiler can choose based on compilation target
> > what the best implementation for this instruction is.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
> 
> There was a small comment from Jerin.
> 
> Those are new functions and should be marked as experimental.
> Please add a call to those in test_prefetch.c.
> Please update the release notes.

Will do - thanks!