This commit adds a new rte_prefetch0_write() variant, suggests to the
compiler to use a prefetch instruction with intention to write. As a
compiler builtin, the compiler can choose based on compilation target
what the best implementation for this instruction is.
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>
---
The integer constants passed to the builtin are not available as
a #define value, and doing #defines just for this write variant
does not seems a nice solution to me... particularly for those using
IDEs where any #define value is auto-hinted for code-completion.
---
lib/librte_eal/include/generic/rte_prefetch.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/include/generic/rte_prefetch.h
b/lib/librte_eal/include/generic/rte_prefetch.h
index 6e47bdfbad..44e2e9abfc 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/include/generic/rte_prefetch.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/include/generic/rte_prefetch.h
@@ -51,4 +51,20 @@ static inline void rte_prefetch2(const volatile void *p);
*/
static inline void rte_prefetch_non_temporal(const volatile void *p);
+/**
+ * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels, with intention to write. This
+ * prefetch variant hints to the CPU that the program is expecting to write to
+ * the cache line being prefetched.
+ *
+ * @param p Address to prefetch
+ */
+static inline void rte_prefetch0_write(const void *p)
+{
+ /* 1 indicates intention to write, 3 sets target cache level to L1. See
+ * GCC docs where these integer constants are described in more detail:
+ * https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html
+ */
+ __builtin_prefetch(p, 1, 3);
+}
+
#endif /* _RTE_PREFETCH_H_ */
--
2.17.1
