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| author | Junchang Wang <junchangwang@gmail.com> | 2010-12-08 17:55:16 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-12-11 00:36:52 +0100 |
| commit | a8d764b9832d3cc86019f71916665dd2d337d7c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 08637ac7b04a569b1b5152f8e52434c9f284bf29 /net/core | |
| parent | sfc: convert references to LRO to GRO (diff) | |
| download | linux-a8d764b9832d3cc86019f71916665dd2d337d7c2.tar.xz linux-a8d764b9832d3cc86019f71916665dd2d337d7c2.zip | |
pktgen: adding prefetchw() call
We know for sure pktgen is going to write skb->data right after
*_alloc_skb, causing unnecessary cache misses.
Idea is to add a prefetchw() call to prefetch the first cache line
indicated by skb->data. On systems with Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch,
it's probably two cache lines are prefetched.
With this patch, pktgen on Intel SR1625 server with two E5530
quad-core processors and a single ixgbe-based NIC went from 8.63Mpps
to 9.03Mpps, with 4.6% improvement.
Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang <junchangwang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/pktgen.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index 2953b2abc971..18fe20dacc60 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -2660,6 +2660,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *fill_packet_ipv4(struct net_device *odev, sprintf(pkt_dev->result, "No memory"); return NULL; } + prefetchw(skb->data); skb_reserve(skb, datalen); @@ -3007,6 +3008,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *fill_packet_ipv6(struct net_device *odev, sprintf(pkt_dev->result, "No memory"); return NULL; } + prefetchw(skb->data); skb_reserve(skb, 16); |