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Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:14:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([153.61.198.245]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-3b094ce9f65sm2992245a91.1.2026.11.04.12.14.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:14:37 -0800 (PST) X-Mailing-List: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:14:36 +0000 Message-Id: From: "Alexei Starovoitov" To: "Antonio Quartulli" Cc: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5e: Prefetch packets of upcoming CQEs in the linear MPWQE path X-Mailer: aerc 0.20.1-355-gf870624f6c37 References: <20261103235823.536706-1-antonio@openvpn.net> In-Reply-To: On Wed Nov 4, 2026 at 7:46 PM UTC, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > Hi Alexei, > > thank you very much for the review!! > > On 04/11/2026 01:39, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: >> can we prefetch 4 strides ahead without the CQE, like gve_rx() ? > > Yep! I measured your version against this patch on the same system (one > RX queue, MTU 1500, mean of 3 runs, gain over stock): > > v1 yours yours + shinfo > UDP 512B flood, packets/s +39% +35% +36% > TCP, 1 stream +7% +5% +8% > TCP in an ovpn UDP tunnel +36% +4% +34% > XDP_DROP reading the packet, > NAPI CPU cycles/packet -38% -45% -32% > XDP_TX, cycles/packet -35% -30% -33% > > > It matches my v1, except where every packet becomes its own skb, like the > records of a VPN tunnel (ovpn from a development tree here). > In that case I got only +4% instead of +36%. > Dropping only the skb_shared_info prefetch from v1 gives +5% there, so > that line is the one that matters. Thanks for the benchmarks. Glad it helped.