On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 9:55 PM Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:29:37PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > According to the Technical Board decision > > (http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/191859.html), > > the mempool pointer in the mbuf struct is moved > > from the second to the first half. > > It may increase performance in some cases > > on systems having 64-byte cache line, i.e. mbuf split in two cache lines. > > > > Due to this change, tx_offload is moved. > > Hopefully no vector data path is impacted. > > > > Moving this field gives more space to dynfield1 > > while dropping the temporary dynfield0. > > > > This is how the mbuf layout looks like (pahole-style): > > > > word type name byte size > > 0 void * buf_addr; /* 0 + 8 */ > > 1 rte_iova_t buf_iova /* 8 + 8 */ > > /* --- RTE_MARKER64 rearm_data; */ > > 2 uint16_t data_off; /* 16 + 2 */ > > uint16_t refcnt; /* 18 + 2 */ > > uint16_t nb_segs; /* 20 + 2 */ > > uint16_t port; /* 22 + 2 */ > > 3 uint64_t ol_flags; /* 24 + 8 */ > > /* --- RTE_MARKER rx_descriptor_fields1; */ > > 4 uint32_t union packet_type; /* 32 + 4 */ > > uint32_t pkt_len; /* 36 + 4 */ > > 5 uint16_t data_len; /* 40 + 2 */ > > uint16_t vlan_tci; /* 42 + 2 */ > > 5.5 uint64_t union hash; /* 44 + 8 */ > > 6.5 uint16_t vlan_tci_outer; /* 52 + 2 */ > > uint16_t buf_len; /* 54 + 2 */ > > 7 struct rte_mempool * pool; /* 56 + 8 */ > > /* --- RTE_MARKER cacheline1; */ > > 8 struct rte_mbuf * next; /* 64 + 8 */ > > 9 uint64_t union tx_offload; /* 72 + 8 */ > > 10 struct rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info * shinfo; /* 80 + 8 */ > > 11 uint16_t priv_size; /* 88 + 2 */ > > uint16_t timesync; /* 90 + 2 */ > > 11.5 uint32_t dynfield1[9]; /* 92 + 36 */ > > 16 /* --- END 128 */ > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>
