[PATCH] event/eth_tx: prefetch mbuf headers

[Naga Harish K, S V]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2025 11:14 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Mattias Rönnblom <hofors at lysator.liu.se>; Naga Harish K, S V
> <s.v.naga.harish.k at intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Mattias
> Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>; Peter Nilsson
> <peter.j.nilsson at ericsson.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] event/eth_tx: prefetch mbuf headers
> 
> Prefetch mbuf headers, resulting in ~10% throughput improvement when the
> Ethernet RX and TX Adapters are hosted on the same core (likely ~2x in case a
> dedicated TX core is used).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
> Tested-by: Peter Nilsson <peter.j.nilsson at ericsson.com>
> ---
>  lib/eventdev/rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/eventdev/rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.c
> b/lib/eventdev/rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.c
> index 67fff8b7d6..d740ae00f9 100644
> --- a/lib/eventdev/rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.c
> +++ b/lib/eventdev/rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.c
> @@ -598,6 +598,12 @@ txa_process_event_vector(struct txa_service_data
> *txa,
>  	return nb_tx;
>  }
> 
> +static inline void
> +txa_prefetch_mbuf(struct rte_mbuf *mbuf) {
> +	rte_mbuf_prefetch_part1(mbuf);
> +}
> +
>  static void
>  txa_service_tx(struct txa_service_data *txa, struct rte_event *ev,
>  	uint32_t n)
> @@ -608,6 +614,20 @@ txa_service_tx(struct txa_service_data *txa, struct
> rte_event *ev,
> 
>  	stats = &txa->stats;
> 
> +	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
> +		struct rte_event *event = &ev[i];
> +
> +		if (unlikely(event->event_type & RTE_EVENT_TYPE_VECTOR))


This gives a branch prediction advantage to non-vector events. Is that the intention?

> {
> +			struct rte_event_vector *vec = event->vec;
> +			struct rte_mbuf **mbufs = vec->mbufs;
> +			uint32_t k;
> +
> +			for (k = 0; k < vec->nb_elem; k++)
> +				txa_prefetch_mbuf(mbufs[k]);
> +		} else
> +			txa_prefetch_mbuf(event->mbuf);
> +	}
> +
>  	nb_tx = 0;
>  	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
>  		uint16_t port;
> --
> 2.43.0