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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Mattias Rönnblom" <hofors@lysator.liu.se>,
	"Naga Harish K S V" <s.v.naga.harish.k@intel.com>,
	"Jerin Jacob" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	"Peter Nilsson" <peter.j.nilsson@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] event/eth_tx: prefetch mbuf headers
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:37:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250710083747.6f613e7f@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250328054339.489914-1-mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 06:43:39 +0100
Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com> wrote:

> 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@ericsson.com>
> Tested-by: Peter Nilsson <peter.j.nilsson@ericsson.com>

Prefetching all the mbufs can be counter productive on a big burst.

VPP does something similar but more unrolled.
See https://fd.io/docs/vpp/v2101/gettingstarted/developers/vnet.html#single-dual-loops

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-10 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-28  5:43 Mattias Rönnblom
2025-03-28  6:07 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2025-05-20 12:56   ` Mattias Rönnblom
2025-05-27  5:01 ` [EXTERNAL] " Jerin Jacob
2025-05-27 10:55 ` Naga Harish K, S V
2025-07-02 20:19   ` Mattias Rönnblom
2025-07-07  9:00     ` Naga Harish K, S V
2025-07-07 11:57       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2025-07-10  4:34         ` Naga Harish K, S V
2025-07-10 15:37 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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