On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 04:53:12PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > This patch adds an AVX2 vectorized path to the i40e driver, based on the > existing SSE4.2 version. Using AVX2 instructions gives better performance > than the SSE version, though the percentage increase depends on the exact > settings used. For example: > > * Using 16B rather than 32B descriptors gives the biggest benefit since > 2 descriptors at a time can be read, rather than just 1 when 32B ones > are used. > * Bigger burst sizes for RX gives improved performance - while we see an > improvement with testpmd with the default burst size of 32, burst sizes > of up to 128 give further improvements > * In my testing, most of the improvement comes from faster processing on > the RX path, though the improved TX also gives benefit. > > This has been tested on a system with CPU: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 CPU > @ 3.00GHz", and I've focused on testing with Rx ring sizes of approx 1k - > generally --rxd=1024 and --txd=512, rather than the defaults which tend to > give poorer zero-loss performance due to the smaller amount of buffering. > > Bruce Richardson (2): > net/i40e: add AVX2 Tx function > net/i40e: add AVX2 Rx function > Just also to note that this set has quite a number of checkpatch warnings about long lines. These were deliberately left in, as the lines are not significantly over 80 characters, and I felt that splitting them would have hurt readability.
/Bruce
