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In the RX buffer, the received data starts after a headroom used to align the IP header and to allow prepending headers efficiently. The prefetch() should take this into account, and prefetch from the very start of the received data. We can see that ether_addr_equal_64bits(), which is the first function to access the data, drops from the top of the perf top output. prefetch(data): Overhead Shared Object Symbol 11.64% [kernel] [k] eth_type_trans prefetch(data + MVPP2_MH_SIZE + MVPP2_SKB_HEADROOM): Overhead Shared Object Symbol 13.42% [kernel] [k] build_skb 10.35% [mvpp2] [k] mvpp2_rx 9.35% [kernel] [k] __netif_receive_skb_core 8.24% [kernel] [k] kmem_cache_free 7.97% [kernel] [k] dev_gro_receive 7.68% [kernel] [k] page_pool_put_page 7.32% [kernel] [k] kmem_cache_alloc 7.09% [mvpp2] [k] mvpp2_bm_pool_put 3.36% [kernel] [k] eth_type_trans Also, move the eth_type_trans() call a bit down, to give the RAM more time to prefetch the data. Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.