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Magnus Karlsson authored
Introduce one cache line worth of padding between the producer and consumer pointers in all the lockless rings. This so that the HW adjacency prefetcher will not prefetch the consumer pointer when the producer pointer is used and vice versa. This improves throughput performance for the l2fwd sample app with 2% on my machine with HW prefetching turned on. Signed-off-by:
Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1602166338-21378-1-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
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