This patch set optimizes qede_{rx,tx}_entry and introduces rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk in qede_process_tx_compl. The overall performance improvement depends on the use-case; in a physical-virtual-physical test on a ThunderX2 99xx system with two SMT threads used in ovs, and two cores used in a vm, an improvement of around 2.55% is observed due to this patch set.
Changes in v2: - Fix checkpatches.sh warnings - Fix check-git-log.sh warnings - Add Reviewed-by: Igor Russkikh <irussk...@marvell.com> Balazs Nemeth (7): net/qede: remove flags from Tx entry net/qede: get consumer index once net/qede: assume mbuf to free is never null net/qede: free packets in bulk instead of one by one net/qede: prefetch hardware consumer net/qede: prefetch next packet to free net/qede: remove unnecessary field in Rx entry and simplify drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c | 154 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.h | 21 +---- 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-) -- 2.30.2