Playing around with the mbuf structure, trying to reduce the use of the
second cache line in some common scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com>
---
 lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
index a30e1e0eaf..c0c3b45024 100644
--- a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
+++ b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
@@ -594,25 +594,6 @@ struct rte_mbuf {
 
        uint16_t buf_len;         /**< Length of segment buffer. */
 
-       struct rte_mempool *pool; /**< Pool from which mbuf was allocated. */
-
-       /* second cache line - fields only used in slow path or on TX */
-       RTE_MARKER cacheline1 __rte_cache_min_aligned;
-
-#if RTE_IOVA_AS_PA
-       /**
-        * Next segment of scattered packet. Must be NULL in the last
-        * segment or in case of non-segmented packet.
-        */
-       struct rte_mbuf *next;
-#else
-       /**
-        * Reserved for dynamic fields
-        * when the next pointer is in first cache line (i.e. RTE_IOVA_AS_PA is 
0).
-        */
-       uint64_t dynfield2;
-#endif
-
        /* fields to support TX offloads */
        RTE_STD_C11
        union {
@@ -651,6 +632,25 @@ struct rte_mbuf {
                };
        };
 
+       /* second cache line - fields only used in slow path or on TX */
+       RTE_MARKER cacheline1 __rte_cache_min_aligned;
+
+#if RTE_IOVA_AS_PA
+       /**
+        * Next segment of scattered packet. Must be NULL in the last
+        * segment or in case of non-segmented packet.
+        */
+       struct rte_mbuf *next;
+#else
+       /**
+        * Reserved for dynamic fields
+        * when the next pointer is in first cache line (i.e. RTE_IOVA_AS_PA is 
0).
+        */
+       uint64_t dynfield2;
+#endif
+
+       struct rte_mempool *pool; /**< Pool from which mbuf was allocated. */
+
        /** Shared data for external buffer attached to mbuf. See
         * rte_pktmbuf_attach_extbuf().
         */
-- 
2.17.1

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