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mlxsw: pci: Optimize data buffer access
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Before accessing data buffer, call net_prefetch() to load it into the
cache. This change improves driver performance, CPU can handle about
7.1% more packets per second.

Signed-off-by: Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1fa07c510890866a6f201163ab7e78890ba28b3b.1718709196.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Amit Cohen authored and Jakub Kicinski committed Jun 20, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *mlxsw_pci_rdq_build_skb(struct page *page,
unsigned int allocated_size;
struct sk_buff *skb;

net_prefetch(data);
allocated_size = page_size(page);
skb = napi_build_skb(data, allocated_size);
if (unlikely(!skb))
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