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authorJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>2015-04-27 18:57:08 (GMT)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2015-07-15 01:26:40 (GMT)
commit489ce7a46306052ab4ef26c6305051c5f1b24bb4 (patch)
tree4e9a2376065ece97915b8547ba790ad338d0537c
parentc78b953e0f189824f5eaa2d60123cfd12ea6db0d (diff)
downloadlinux-489ce7a46306052ab4ef26c6305051c5f1b24bb4.tar.xz
i40e/i40evf: improve Tx performance with a small tweak
Add a prefetch for the next Tx descriptor to be used when we know there are more coming. Change-ID: Ibb9acab11d508eec2db7da795df74debc16eeacb Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Jim Young <james.m.young@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index 9a4f2bc..1fe230d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -2616,6 +2616,8 @@ static inline void i40e_tx_map(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, struct sk_buff *skb,
netif_xmit_stopped(netdev_get_tx_queue(tx_ring->netdev,
tx_ring->queue_index)))
writel(i, tx_ring->tail);
+ else
+ prefetchw(tx_desc + 1);
return;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
index 395f32f..0f0e185 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -1841,6 +1841,8 @@ static inline void i40evf_tx_map(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, struct sk_buff *skb,
netif_xmit_stopped(netdev_get_tx_queue(tx_ring->netdev,
tx_ring->queue_index)))
writel(i, tx_ring->tail);
+ else
+ prefetchw(tx_desc + 1);
return;