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Commit b8c7aece authored by Magnus Karlsson's avatar Magnus Karlsson Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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xsk: Introduce padding between more ring pointers



Introduce one cache line worth of padding between the consumer pointer
and the flags field as well as between the flags field and the start
of the descriptors in all the lockless rings. This so that the x86 HW
adjacency prefetcher will not prefetch the adjacent pointer/field when
only one pointer/field is going to be used. This improves throughput
performance for the l2fwd sample app with 1% on my machine with HW
prefetching turned on in the BIOS.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMagnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1605525167-14450-4-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
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