Hi, On 06/02/2016 11:30 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 05:04:13PM +0800, Jianbo Liu wrote: >> On 1 June 2016 at 14:00, Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 11:29:47AM +0800, Jianbo Liu wrote: >>>> On 1 June 2016 at 03:28, Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz at 6wind.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi Jianbo, >>>>> >>>>> On 05/31/2016 05:06 AM, Jianbo Liu wrote: >>>>>> Change the inline function to macro with parameters >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu at linaro.org> >>>>>> >>>>>> [...] >> [...] >>>> It's for performance consideration, and only on armv8a platform. >>> >>> Strictly it is not armv8 specific, IA also implemented this API with >>> _MM_HINT_NTA hint. >> >> I mean this patch is only for ixgbe vector PMD on armv8 platform. >> >>> >>> Do we really need non-temporal/transient version of prefetch for ixgbe? >> >> Strictly speaking, we don't have to since we don't know how APPs use >> the mbuf header. > > Then IMO it makes sense to keep the same behavior as x86 ixgbe driver. > Then on the upside, We may not need the new macros for part prefetching > > Jerin
Knowing that http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/13992/ has been submitted, I think this patch can be marked as closed in patchwork.
