[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] app/testpmd: optimized MAC swap by using neon intrinsics
Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
jerinj at marvell.com
Mon Mar 11 15:16:34 CET 2019
On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 16:14 +0800, Ruifeng Wang wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> Improved MAC swap performance for ARM platform.
> The improvement was achieved by using neon intrinsics
> to save CPU cycles and doing swap for four packets
> at a time.
> The optimization had 15% - 20% throughput boost
> in testpmd MAC swap mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> ---
> app/test-pmd/macswap.c | 4 +-
> app/test-pmd/macswap_neon.h | 93
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 app/test-pmd/macswap_neon.h
>
> diff --git a/app/test-pmd/macswap.c b/app/test-pmd/macswap.c
>
> +static inline void
> +do_macswap(struct rte_mbuf *pkts[], uint16_t nb,
> + struct rte_port *txp)
> +{
> + struct ether_hdr *eth_hdr[4];
> + struct rte_mbuf *mb[4];
> + uint64_t ol_flags;
> + int i;
> + int r;
> + uint8x16_t v0, v1, v2, v3;
> + /**
> + * Index map be used to shuffle the 16 bytes.
> + * byte 0-5 will be swapped with byte 6-11.
> + * byte 12-15 will keep unchanged.
> + */
> + uint8x16_t idx_map = {6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
> + 12, 13, 14, 15};
Nit: I think, we can make it as "const uint8x16_t idx_map".
Other than that it looks good to me.
Regarding the performance, I have tested with two SoCs.
octeontx: +13% improvement
octeontx2: +46% improvement
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
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