[PATCH] config/arm: fix the cacheline size for Grace CPU

Bing Zhao bingz at nvidia.com
Tue Mar 17 10:17:32 CET 2026


The Nvidia Grace platform has a cacheline size with 64B, unlike the
128B size on other arm64 generic platforms. In the meson file, the
cacheline size is missing to be defined explicitly. So it will choose
128 for building and it will impact the performance.

In the ACM whitepaper, "The NVIDIA Grace CPU implements 72 Neoverse V2
Cores [16] with a 64-B cache line size".

Reference link:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3723851.3723853

Fixes: d007038c0121 ("config/arm: add NVIDIA Grace CPU")
Cc: honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz at nvidia.com>
---
 config/arm/meson.build | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config/arm/meson.build b/config/arm/meson.build
index 523b0fc0ed..f7eac7da0a 100644
--- a/config/arm/meson.build
+++ b/config/arm/meson.build
@@ -535,6 +535,9 @@ soc_grace = {
     'implementer': '0x41',
     'part_number': '0xd4f',
     'extra_march_features': ['crypto'],
+    'flags': [
+        ['RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE', '"64"'],
+    ],
     'numa': true
 }
 
-- 
2.34.1



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