xsk: Introduce padding between more ring pointers
Introduce one cache line worth of padding between the consumer pointer and the flags field as well as between the flags field and the start of the descriptors in all the lockless rings. This so that the x86 HW adjacency prefetcher will not prefetch the adjacent pointer/field when only one pointer/field is going to be used. This improves throughput performance for the l2fwd sample app with 1% on my machine with HW prefetching turned on in the BIOS. Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1605525167-14450-4-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
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