net/mlx5e: Use prefetchw when a write is to follow

"prefetchw()" prefetches the cacheline for write. Use it for
skb->data, as soon we'll be copying the packet header there.

Performance:
Single-stream packet-rate tested with pktgen.
Packets are dropped in tc level to zoom into driver data-path.
Larger gain is expected for smaller packets, as less time
is spent on handling SKB fragments, making the path shorter
and the improvement more significant.

---------------------------------------------
packet size | before    | after     | gain  |
64B         | 4,113,306 | 4,778,720 |  16%  |
1024B       | 3,633,819 | 3,950,593 | 8.7%  |

Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
index d717573b73dac8ca3638ae44882ae56baafdd8ec..7b1566f0ae58c7c64e3313ed4f6f3fb83bafee5c 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ void mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, struct mlx5_cqe64 *cqe)
                goto mpwrq_cqe_out;
        }
 
-       prefetch(skb->data);
+       prefetchw(skb->data);
        cqe_bcnt = mpwrq_get_cqe_byte_cnt(cqe);
 
        mlx5e_mpwqe_fill_rx_skb(rq, cqe, wi, cqe_bcnt, skb);