> -----Original Message-----
> From: Radu Nicolau <radu.nico...@intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 6:50 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: beilei.x...@intel.com; jia....@intel.com; bruce.richard...@intel.com;
> konstantin.anan...@intel.com; jerinjac...@gmail.com;
> david.march...@redhat.com; fiona.tr...@intel.com; wei.zh...@intel.com;
> Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>; Radu Nicolau
> <radu.nico...@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v8 2/4] net/i40e: use WC store to update queue tail registers
>
> Performance improvement: use a write combining store instead of a regular
> mmio write to update queue tail registers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nico...@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_osdep.h | 5 +++++
> drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx2.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_sse.c | 4 ++--
> 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_osdep.h
> b/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_osdep.h
> index 58be396..69ab717 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_osdep.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_osdep.h
> @@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ static inline uint32_t i40e_read_addr(volatile void
> *addr)
> #define I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE_RELAXED(reg, value) \
> rte_write32_relaxed((rte_cpu_to_le_32(value)), reg)
>
> +#define I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(queue, reg, value) \
'queue' is not necessary since it will not be used. It can be removed?
Thanks.
/Ruifeng
> + rte_write32_wc((rte_cpu_to_le_32(value)), reg) #define
> +I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE_RELAXED(queue, reg, value) \
> + rte_write32_wc_relaxed((rte_cpu_to_le_32(value)), reg)
> +
> #define I40E_WRITE_FLUSH(a) I40E_READ_REG(a, I40E_GLGEN_STAT)
> #define I40EVF_WRITE_FLUSH(a) I40E_READ_REG(a, I40E_VFGEN_RSTAT)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c index
> 840b6f3..64e43ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
> @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ i40e_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf
> **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
> if (nb_hold > rxq->rx_free_thresh) {
> rx_id = (uint16_t) ((rx_id == 0) ?
> (rxq->nb_rx_desc - 1) : (rx_id - 1));
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE(rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(rxq, rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> nb_hold = 0;
> }
> rxq->nb_rx_hold = nb_hold;
> @@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ i40e_recv_scattered_pkts(void *rx_queue,
> if (nb_hold > rxq->rx_free_thresh) {
> rx_id = (uint16_t)(rx_id == 0 ?
> (rxq->nb_rx_desc - 1) : (rx_id - 1));
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE(rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(rxq, rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> nb_hold = 0;
> }
> rxq->nb_rx_hold = nb_hold;
> @@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ i40e_xmit_pkts(void *tx_queue, struct rte_mbuf
> **tx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
> (unsigned) tx_id, (unsigned) nb_tx);
>
> rte_cio_wmb();
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE_RELAXED(txq->qtx_tail, tx_id);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE_RELAXED(txq, txq->qtx_tail, tx_id);
> txq->tx_tail = tx_id;
>
> return nb_tx;
> @@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ tx_xmit_pkts(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq,
> txq->tx_tail = 0;
>
> /* Update the tx tail register */
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE(txq->qtx_tail, txq->tx_tail);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(txq, txq->qtx_tail, txq->tx_tail);
>
> return nb_pkts;
> }
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx2.c
> b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx2.c
> index 3bcef13..294c1c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx2.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx2.c
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ i40e_rxq_rearm(struct i40e_rx_queue *rxq)
> (rxq->nb_rx_desc - 1) : (rxq->rxrearm_start - 1));
>
> /* Update the tail pointer on the NIC */
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE(rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(rxq, rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> }
>
> #ifndef RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_16BYTE_RX_DESC
> @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ i40e_xmit_fixed_burst_vec_avx2(void *tx_queue,
> struct rte_mbuf **tx_pkts,
>
> txq->tx_tail = tx_id;
>
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE(txq->qtx_tail, txq->tx_tail);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(txq, txq->qtx_tail, txq->tx_tail);
>
> return nb_pkts;
> }
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_sse.c
> b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_sse.c
> index 6985183..a4635e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_sse.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_sse.c
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ i40e_rxq_rearm(struct i40e_rx_queue *rxq)
> (rxq->nb_rx_desc - 1) : (rxq->rxrearm_start - 1));
>
> /* Update the tail pointer on the NIC */
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE(rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(rxq, rxq->qrx_tail, rx_id);
> }
>
> #ifndef RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_16BYTE_RX_DESC
> @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ i40e_xmit_fixed_burst_vec(void *tx_queue, struct
> rte_mbuf **tx_pkts,
>
> txq->tx_tail = tx_id;
>
> - I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE(txq->qtx_tail, txq->tx_tail);
> + I40E_PCI_REG_WC_WRITE(txq, txq->qtx_tail, txq->tx_tail);
>
> return nb_pkts;
> }
> --
> 2.7.4
