> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2025 19.15 > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 06:30:02AM +0000, Morten Brørup wrote: > > An optimized function for resetting a bulk of newly allocated > > reinitialized mbufs (a.k.a. raw mbufs) was added. > > > > Compared to the normal packet mbuf reset function, it takes advantage > of > > the following two details: > > 1. The 'next' and 'nb_segs' fields are already reset, so resetting > them > > has been omitted. > > 2. When resetting the mbuf, the 'ol_flags' field must indicate > whether the > > mbuf uses an external buffer, and the 'data_off' field must not > exceed the > > data room size when resetting the data offset to include the default > > headroom. > > Unlike the normal packet mbuf reset function, which reads the mbuf > itself > > to get the information required for resetting these two fields, this > > function gets the information from the mempool. > > > > This makes the function write-only of the mbuf, unlike the normal > packet > > mbuf reset function, which is read-modify-write of the mbuf. > > > > Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <[email protected]> > > --- > > lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > -- > > 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h > > index 49c93ab356..6f37a2e91e 100644 > > --- a/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h > > +++ b/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h > > @@ -954,6 +954,50 @@ static inline void > rte_pktmbuf_reset_headroom(struct rte_mbuf *m) > > (uint16_t)m->buf_len); > > } > > > > +/** > > + * Reset the fields of a bulk of packet mbufs to their default > values. > > + * > > + * The caller must ensure that the mbufs come from the specified > mempool, > > + * are direct and properly reinitialized (refcnt=1, next=NULL, > nb_segs=1), > > + * as done by rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg(). > > + * > > + * This function should be used with care, when optimization is > required. > > + * For standard needs, prefer rte_pktmbuf_reset(). > > + * > > + * @param mp > > + * The mempool to which the mbuf belongs. > > + * @param mbufs > > + * Array of pointers to packet mbufs. > > + * The array must not contain NULL pointers. > > + * @param count > > + * Array size. > > + */ > > +static inline void > > +rte_mbuf_raw_reset_bulk(struct rte_mempool *mp, struct rte_mbuf > **mbufs, unsigned int count) > > +{ > > + uint64_t ol_flags = (rte_pktmbuf_priv_flags(mp) & > RTE_PKTMBUF_POOL_F_PINNED_EXT_BUF) ? > > + RTE_MBUF_F_EXTERNAL : 0; > > + uint16_t data_off = RTE_MIN_T(RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM, > rte_pktmbuf_data_room_size(mp), > > + uint16_t); > > + > > + for (unsigned int idx = 0; idx < count; idx++) { > > + struct rte_mbuf *m = mbufs[idx]; > > + > > + m->pkt_len = 0; > > + m->tx_offload = 0; > > + m->vlan_tci = 0; > > + m->vlan_tci_outer = 0; > > + m->port = RTE_MBUF_PORT_INVALID; > > Have you considered doing all initialization using 64-bit stores? It's > generally cheaper to do a single 64-bit store than e.g. set of 16-bit > ones.
The code is basically copy-paste from rte_pktmbuf_reset(). I kept it the same way for readability. > This also means that we could remove the restriction on having refcnt > and > nb_segs already set. As in PMDs, a single store can init data_off, > ref_cnt, > nb_segs and port. Yes, I have given the concept a lot of thought already. If we didn't require mbufs residing in the mempool to have any fields initialized, specifically "next" and "nb_segs", it would improve performance for drivers freeing mbufs back to the mempool, because writing to the mbufs would no longer be required at that point; the mbufs could simply be freed back to the mempool. Instead, we would require the driver to initialize these fields - which it probably does on RX anyway, if it supports segmented packets. But I consider this concept a major API change, also affecting applications assuming that these fields are initialized when allocating raw mbufs from the mempool. So I haven't pursued it. > > Similarly for packet_type and pkt_len, and data_len/vlan_tci and rss > fields > etc. For max performance, the whole of the mbuf cleared here can be > done in > 40 bytes, or 5 64-bit stores. If we do the stores in order, possibly > the > compiler can even opportunistically coalesce more stores, so we could > even > end up getting 128-bit or larger stores depending on the ISA compiled > for. > [Maybe the compiler will do this even if they are not in order, but I'd > like to maximize my chances here! :-)] > > /Bruce > > > + > > + m->ol_flags = ol_flags; > > + m->packet_type = 0; > > + m->data_off = data_off; > > + > > + m->data_len = 0; > > + __rte_mbuf_sanity_check(m, 1); > > + } > > +} > > + > <snip>
