[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] net/ixgbe: calculate the correct number of received packets in bulk alloc function

[Jianbo Liu]

To get better performance, Rx bulk alloc recv function will scan 8 descs
in one time, but the statuses are not consistent on ARM platform because
the memory allocated for Rx descriptors is cacheable hugepages.
This patch is to calculate the number of received packets by scan DD bit
sequentially, and stops when meeting the first packet with DD bit unset.

Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
index 36f1c02..613890e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
@@ -1460,17 +1460,19 @@ static inline int __attribute__((always_inline))
 	for (i = 0; i < RTE_PMD_IXGBE_RX_MAX_BURST;
 	     i += LOOK_AHEAD, rxdp += LOOK_AHEAD, rxep += LOOK_AHEAD) {
 		/* Read desc statuses backwards to avoid race condition */
-		for (j = LOOK_AHEAD-1; j >= 0; --j)
+		for (j = 0; j < LOOK_AHEAD; j++)
 			s[j] = rte_le_to_cpu_32(rxdp[j].wb.upper.status_error);
 
-		for (j = LOOK_AHEAD - 1; j >= 0; --j)
-			pkt_info[j] = rte_le_to_cpu_32(rxdp[j].wb.lower.
-						       lo_dword.data);
+		rte_smp_rmb();
 
 		/* Compute how many status bits were set */
-		nb_dd = 0;
-		for (j = 0; j < LOOK_AHEAD; ++j)
-			nb_dd += s[j] & IXGBE_RXDADV_STAT_DD;
+		for (nb_dd = 0; nb_dd < LOOK_AHEAD &&
+				(s[nb_dd] & IXGBE_RXDADV_STAT_DD); nb_dd++)
+			;
+
+		for (j = 0; j < nb_dd; j++)
+			pkt_info[j] = rte_le_to_cpu_32(rxdp[j].wb.lower.
+						       lo_dword.data);
 
 		nb_rx += nb_dd;
 
-- 
1.8.3.1