[PATCH] net/virtio: restore some optimisations with AVX512

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 11:12:59 CEST 2022


Hi Marvin,

On 4/11/22 17:04, David Marchand wrote:
> Those optimisations were only enabled with make builds, fix the meson
> part.
> 
> Fixes: 77d66da83834 ("net/virtio: add vectorized packed ring Rx")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/virtio/meson.build | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/meson.build b/drivers/net/virtio/meson.build
> index 01a333ada2..d78b8278c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/meson.build
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/meson.build
> @@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ if arch_subdir == 'x86'
>                             c_args: [cflags, '-mavx512f', '-mavx512bw', '-mavx512vl'])
>               objs += virtio_avx512_lib.extract_objects('virtio_rxtx_packed.c')
>               if (toolchain == 'gcc' and cc.version().version_compare('>=8.3.0'))
> -                cflags += '-DVHOST_GCC_UNROLL_PRAGMA'
> +                cflags += '-DVIRTIO_GCC_UNROLL_PRAGMA'
>               elif (toolchain == 'clang' and cc.version().version_compare('>=3.7.0'))
> -                cflags += '-DVHOST_CLANG_UNROLL_PRAGMA'
> +                cflags += '-DVIRTIO_CLANG_UNROLL_PRAGMA'
>               elif (toolchain == 'icc' and cc.version().version_compare('>=16.0.0'))
> -                cflags += '-DVHOST_ICC_UNROLL_PRAGMA'
> +                cflags += '-DVIRTIO_ICC_UNROLL_PRAGMA'
>               endif
>           endif
>       endif

I wonder how this was not spotted by the Intel performance lab?
Is that these optimizations do not bring performance gains, or it is not
benchmark-ed?

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime



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