this improves the throughput of a simple tx-only application by 11% in the full-featured ixgbe tx path and by 14% in the simple tx path. --- lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h index ab6de67..f6895b4 100644 --- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h +++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h @@ -538,6 +538,7 @@ static inline struct rte_mbuf *__rte_mbuf_raw_alloc(struct rte_mempool *mp) if (rte_mempool_get(mp, &mb) < 0) return NULL; m = (struct rte_mbuf *)mb; + rte_prefetch0(&m->cacheline1); RTE_MBUF_ASSERT(rte_mbuf_refcnt_read(m) == 0); rte_mbuf_refcnt_set(m, 1); return (m); -- 1.9.1