[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/ixgbe: remove barrier in vPMD for aarch64

[Ruifeng Wang]

The memory barrier was intended for descriptor data integrity (see
comments in [1]). However, since NEON loads are atomic, there is
no need for the memory barrier. Remove it accordingly.

Corrected couple of code comments.

In terms of performance, observed slightly higher average throughput
in tests with 82599ES NIC.

[1] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/18153/

Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_neon.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_neon.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_neon.c
index edb138354..86fb3afdb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_neon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_neon.c
@@ -214,13 +214,13 @@ _recv_raw_pkts_vec(struct ixgbe_rx_queue *rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
 		uint32_t var = 0;
 		uint32_t stat;
 
-		/* B.1 load 1 mbuf point */
+		/* B.1 load 2 mbuf point */
 		mbp1 = vld1q_u64((uint64_t *)&sw_ring[pos]);
 
 		/* B.2 copy 2 mbuf point into rx_pkts  */
 		vst1q_u64((uint64_t *)&rx_pkts[pos], mbp1);
 
-		/* B.1 load 1 mbuf point */
+		/* B.1 load 2 mbuf point */
 		mbp2 = vld1q_u64((uint64_t *)&sw_ring[pos + 2]);
 
 		/* A. load 4 pkts descs */
@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ _recv_raw_pkts_vec(struct ixgbe_rx_queue *rxq, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
 		descs[1] =  vld1q_u64((uint64_t *)(rxdp + 1));
 		descs[2] =  vld1q_u64((uint64_t *)(rxdp + 2));
 		descs[3] =  vld1q_u64((uint64_t *)(rxdp + 3));
-		rte_smp_rmb();
 
 		/* B.2 copy 2 mbuf point into rx_pkts  */
 		vst1q_u64((uint64_t *)&rx_pkts[pos + 2], mbp2);
-- 
2.17.1