[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] examples/l3fwd: tune prefetch for better performance
Jerin Jacob
jerinjacobk at gmail.com
Tue Apr 13 20:50:56 CEST 2021
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:56 PM Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com> wrote:
>
> Packet header is prefetched before packet processing for better
> memory access performance. As L2 header will be updated by l3fwd,
> using of prefetch for store hint will set cache line to proper
> status and reduce cache maintenance overhead.
The code does read the cache line too. Right?
>
> With this change, 12.9% performance uplift was measured on N1SDP
> platform with MLX5 NIC.
>
> Suggested-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
On the octeontx2 platform, It is 2% regression.
Looks like micro architecture-specific item of handing write hint on the memory
the area that does read and write.
I am testing the LPM lookup miss case.
My test command:
./build/examples/dpdk-l3fwd -c 0x0100 -- -p 0x1 --config="(0,0,8)" -P
> ---
> examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_lpm_neon.h | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_lpm_neon.h b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_lpm_neon.h
> index d6c0ba64a..ae8840694 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_lpm_neon.h
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_lpm_neon.h
> @@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ l3fwd_lpm_send_packets(int nb_rx, struct rte_mbuf **pkts_burst,
>
> if (k) {
> for (i = 0; i < FWDSTEP; i++) {
> - rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[i],
> + rte_prefetch0_write(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[i],
> struct rte_ether_hdr *) + 1);
> }
>
> for (j = 0; j != k - FWDSTEP; j += FWDSTEP) {
> for (i = 0; i < FWDSTEP; i++) {
> - rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(
> + rte_prefetch0_write(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(
> pkts_burst[j + i + FWDSTEP],
> struct rte_ether_hdr *) + 1);
> }
> @@ -124,17 +124,17 @@ l3fwd_lpm_send_packets(int nb_rx, struct rte_mbuf **pkts_burst,
> /* Prefetch last up to 3 packets one by one */
> switch (m) {
> case 3:
> - rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[j],
> + rte_prefetch0_write(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[j],
> struct rte_ether_hdr *) + 1);
> j++;
> /* fallthrough */
> case 2:
> - rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[j],
> + rte_prefetch0_write(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[j],
> struct rte_ether_hdr *) + 1);
> j++;
> /* fallthrough */
> case 1:
> - rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[j],
> + rte_prefetch0_write(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts_burst[j],
> struct rte_ether_hdr *) + 1);
> j++;
> }
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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