netdev - [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/mlx4_en: RX, Add a prefetch command for small L1_CACHE

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Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:54:18 +0300
From:   Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/mlx4_en: RX, Add a prefetch command for small L1_CACHE_BYTES

A single cacheline might not contain the packet header for
small L1_CACHE_BYTES values.
Use net_prefetch() as it issues an additional prefetch
in this case.

Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
index b50c567ef508..99d7737e8ad6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ int mlx4_en_process_rx_cq(struct net_device *dev, struct mlx4_en_cq *cq, int bud
 
 		frags = ring->rx_info + (index << priv->log_rx_info);
 		va = page_address(frags[0].page) + frags[0].page_offset;
-		prefetchw(va);
+		net_prefetchw(va);
 		/*
 		 * make sure we read the CQE after we read the ownership bit
 		 */
-- 
2.21.0