[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ring: move the atomic load of head above the loop

Gavin Hu gavin.hu at arm.com
Wed Oct 17 08:29:46 CEST 2018


In __rte_ring_move_prod_head, move the __atomic_load_n up and out of
the do {} while loop as upon failure the old_head will be updated,
another load is costly and not necessary.

This helps a little on the latency,about 1~5%.

 Test result with the patch(two cores):
 SP/SC bulk enq/dequeue (size: 8): 5.64
 MP/MC bulk enq/dequeue (size: 8): 9.58
 SP/SC bulk enq/dequeue (size: 32): 1.98
 MP/MC bulk enq/dequeue (size: 32): 2.30

Fixes: 39368ebfc6 ("ring: introduce C11 memory model barrier option")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <Ola.Liljedahl at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jia He <justin.he at arm.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
---
 lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
index 4851763..fdab2b9 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
@@ -60,13 +60,11 @@ __rte_ring_move_prod_head(struct rte_ring *r, unsigned int is_sp,
 	unsigned int max = n;
 	int success;
 
+	*old_head = __atomic_load_n(&r->prod.head, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
 	do {
 		/* Reset n to the initial burst count */
 		n = max;
 
-		*old_head = __atomic_load_n(&r->prod.head,
-					__ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
-
 		/* load-acquire synchronize with store-release of ht->tail
 		 * in update_tail.
 		 */
@@ -92,6 +90,7 @@ __rte_ring_move_prod_head(struct rte_ring *r, unsigned int is_sp,
 		if (is_sp)
 			r->prod.head = *new_head, success = 1;
 		else
+			/* on failure, *old_head is updated */
 			success = __atomic_compare_exchange_n(&r->prod.head,
 					old_head, *new_head,
 					0, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE,
@@ -133,13 +132,11 @@ __rte_ring_move_cons_head(struct rte_ring *r, int is_sc,
 	int success;
 
 	/* move cons.head atomically */
+	*old_head = __atomic_load_n(&r->cons.head, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
 	do {
 		/* Restore n as it may change every loop */
 		n = max;
 
-		*old_head = __atomic_load_n(&r->cons.head,
-					__ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
-
 		/* this load-acquire synchronize with store-release of ht->tail
 		 * in update_tail.
 		 */
@@ -164,6 +161,7 @@ __rte_ring_move_cons_head(struct rte_ring *r, int is_sc,
 		if (is_sc)
 			r->cons.head = *new_head, success = 1;
 		else
+			/* on failure, *old_head will be updated */
 			success = __atomic_compare_exchange_n(&r->cons.head,
 							old_head, *new_head,
 							0, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE,
-- 
2.7.4



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