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authorBenjamin LaHaise <ben.lahaise@neterion.com>2009-08-04 10:21:57 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-05 13:10:45 -0700
commitea11bbe0c94b045fdefc05476b69a2eef999a9c4 (patch)
tree17e6ba82dbfd3e90f7728fa6b08fb01d1613168b /drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.h
parent3f23e436d241ac1cf50a659228a5a0e1e6572c1a (diff)
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vxge: prefetch skb->data
This patch implements prefetching of skb->data from a copy of the pointer in the descriptor (which is already in the L1 cache at this point). This improves netperf rx performance (netperf -L 0,0 -c -H 192.168.254.2 -- -M 131072 -m 131072) by 4.9% on a P4 Xeon host. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <ben.lahaise@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.h b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.h
index 8b3989bc707f..9c36b3a9a63d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.h
+++ b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.h
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ struct vxgedev {
struct vxge_rx_priv {
struct sk_buff *skb;
+ unsigned char *skb_data;
dma_addr_t data_dma;
dma_addr_t data_size;
};
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