[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 18.11] net/mlx5: fix instruction hotspot on replenishing Rx buffer

[Yongseok Koh]

On replenishing Rx buffers for vectorized Rx, mbuf->buf_addr isn't needed
to be accessed as it is static and easily calculated from the mbuf address.
Accessing the mbuf content causes unnecessary load stall. non-x86
processors (mostly RISC such as ARM and Power) are more vulnerable to load
stall. For x86, reducing the number of instructions seems to matter most.

Fixes: 545b884b1da3 ("net/mlx5: fix buffer address posting in SSE Rx")

Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h
index fda7004e2..86735044d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.h
@@ -102,7 +102,22 @@ mlx5_rx_replenish_bulk_mbuf(struct mlx5_rxq_data *rxq, uint16_t n)
 		return;
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
-		wq[i].addr = rte_cpu_to_be_64((uintptr_t)elts[i]->buf_addr +
+		void *buf_addr;
+
+		/*
+		 * Load the virtual address for Rx WQE. non-x86 processors
+		 * (mostly RISC such as ARM and Power) are more vulnerable to
+		 * load stall. For x86, reducing the number of instructions
+		 * seems to matter most.
+		 */
+#ifdef RTE_ARCH_X86_64
+		buf_addr = elts[i]->buf_addr;
+#else
+		buf_addr = (char *)elts[i] + sizeof(struct rte_mbuf) +
+			   rte_pktmbuf_priv_size(rxq->mp);
+		assert(buf_addr == elts[i]->buf_addr);
+#endif
+		wq[i].addr = rte_cpu_to_be_64((uintptr_t)buf_addr +
 					      RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM);
 		/* If there's only one MR, no need to replace LKey in WQE. */
 		if (unlikely(mlx5_mr_btree_len(&rxq->mr_ctrl.cache_bh) > 1))
-- 
2.11.0