[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Optimize qede use of rx/tx_entries

[Jerin Jacob]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 6:44 PM Balazs Nemeth <bnemeth at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This patch set optimizes qede_{rx,tx}_entry and introduces
> rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk in qede_process_tx_compl. The overall performance
> improvement depends on the use-case; in a physical-virtual-physical test
> on a ThunderX2 99xx system with two SMT threads used in ovs,
> and two cores used in a vm, an improvement of around 2.55% is observed
> due to this patch set.


Cc: rmody at marvell.com
Cc: shshaikh at marvell.com

Hi Rasesh, Shahed
Could you review this series from Balazs?


>
> Balazs Nemeth (8):
>   net/qede: remove flags from qede_tx_entry and simplify to rte_mbuf
>   net/qede: avoid repeatedly calling ecore_chain_get_cons_idx
>   net/qede: assume txq->sw_tx_ring[idx] is never null in
>     qede_free_tx_pkt
>   net/qede: inline qede_free_tx_pkt to prepare for rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
>   net/qede: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk instead of rte_pktmbuf_free
>   net/qede: prefetch txq->hw_cons_ptr
>   net/qede: prefetch next packet to free
>   net/qede: remove page_offset from struct qede_rx_entry and simplify
>
>  drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c | 148 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.h |  21 +----
>  2 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.29.2
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