Use dma_rmb in mlx5e_get_cqe rather than aggressive rmb (at least on
some architectures), this should help improve the performance on such
CPU archs where dma_rmb is optimized.
Performance improvement:
System: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Test case Baseline Now improvement
---------------------------------------------------------------
TX packets (24 threads) 45Mpps 50Mpps 11%
TC stack Drop (1 core) 3.45Mpps 3.6Mpps 5%
XDP Drop (1 core) 14Mpps 16.9Mpps 20%
XDP TX (1 core) 10.4Mpps 12Mpps 15%
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c
index e5c12a732aa1..d8cda2f6239b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ struct mlx5_cqe64 *mlx5e_get_cqe(struct mlx5e_cq *cq)
return NULL;
/* ensure cqe content is read after cqe ownership bit */
- rmb();
+ dma_rmb();
return cqe;
}
--
2.11.0
