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From: "Damjan Marion (damarion)" <damarion@cisco.com>
Subject: rte_mbuf.next in 2nd cacheline
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:47:52 +0000
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Hi,

We noticed 7% performance improvement by simply moving rte_mbuf.next field =
to the 1st cache line.

Currently, it falls under /* second cache line - fields only used in slow p=
ath or on TX */
but it is actually used at several places in rx fast path. (e.g.: i40e_rx_a=
lloc_bufs() is setting that field to NULL).

Is there anything we can do here (stop using next field, or move it to 1st =
cache line)?

Thanks,

Damjan