[PATCH v2] net/cnxk: performance improvement for SW mbuf free

[Jerin Jacob]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 8:47 AM Rahul Bhansali <rbhansali at marvell.com> wrote:
>
> Performance improvement is done for Tx fastpath flag MBUF_NOFF when
> tx_compl_ena is false and mbuf has an external buffer.
> In such case, Instead of individual external mbuf free before LMTST,
> a chain of external mbuf will be created and free all after LMTST.
> This not only improve the performance but also fixes SQ corruption.
>
> CN10k performance improvement is ~14%.
> CN9k performance improvement is ~20%.
>
> Fixes: 51a636528515 ("net/cnxk: fix crash during Tx completion")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Bhansali <rbhansali at marvell.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-mrvl/for-main. Thanks