[PATCH] ring: add cache guard after ring elements table

["Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>]

Added cache guard after the table holding the ring elements, to avoid
false sharing conflicts caused by next-line hardware prefetchers when
accessing elements at the end of the ring table.

Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
---
 lib/ring/rte_ring.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ring/rte_ring.c b/lib/ring/rte_ring.c
index f10050a1c4..9ccc62cd42 100644
--- a/lib/ring/rte_ring.c
+++ b/lib/ring/rte_ring.c
@@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ rte_ring_get_memsize_elem(unsigned int esize, unsigned int count)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	static_assert(sizeof(struct rte_ring) == RTE_CACHE_LINE_ROUNDUP(sizeof(struct rte_ring)),
+			"Size of struct rte_ring not cache line aligned");
 	sz = sizeof(struct rte_ring) + (ssize_t)count * esize;
 	sz = RTE_ALIGN(sz, RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+	sz += RTE_CACHE_GUARD_LINES * RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE;
 	return sz;
 }
 
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