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From: Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] net/qede: fix prefetch from incorrect place
	in Tx path
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:29:30 -0800
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Incorrect placement of prefetch in Tx path is causing
a performance drop of around ~2% on AMD platform.

Fixes: 2ea6f76aff40 ("qede: add core driver")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>
---
 drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c
index 684c4ae..eda19b2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qede/qede_rxtx.c
@@ -2181,7 +2181,6 @@ qede_xmit_pkts(void *p_txq, struct rte_mbuf **tx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 
 		txq->nb_tx_avail -= bd1->data.nbds;
 		txq->sw_tx_prod++;
-		rte_prefetch0(txq->sw_tx_ring[TX_PROD(txq)].mbuf);
 		bd_prod =
 		    rte_cpu_to_le_16(ecore_chain_get_prod_idx(&txq->tx_pbl));
 #ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_QEDE_DEBUG_TX
-- 
2.7.4