This series applies on top of "[PATCH] eal: define generic vector types" [1][2]
Using built-in vector types forces compilers to consider SIMD instructions in specific places in order to improve performance on both IBM POWER8 and Intel architectures. For example, testpmd single-thread I/O forwarding packets per second performance is improved by 6% on Intel platforms. [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-November/050261.html [2] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/17024/ Nelio Laranjeiro (7): net/mlx5: prepare Tx vectorization net/mlx5: use work queue buffer as a raw buffer net/mlx5: use vector types to speed up processing net/mlx5: fix missing inline attributes net/mlx5: move static prototype net/mlx5: optimize copy of Ethernet header net/mlx5: remove inefficient prefetching drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h | 20 +++- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c | 243 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h | 2 +- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c | 8 +- 4 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4