[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][v3] i40e: optimise prefetch page refcount

[Jesse Brandeburg]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:07:57 +0800
Li RongQing <lirongqing at baidu.com> wrote:

> refcount of rx_buffer page will be added here originally, so prefetchw
> is needed, but after commit 1793668c3b8c ("i40e/i40evf: Update code to
>  better handle incrementing page count"), and refcount is not added
> everytime, so change prefetchw as prefetch,
> 
> now it mainly services page_address(), but which accesses struct page
> only when WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL or HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL is defined
> otherwise it returns address based on offset, so we prefetch it
> conditionally
> 
> Jakub suggested to define prefetch_page_address in a common header
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing at baidu.com>

This change looks fine to me, hopefully the more heavyweight
prefetch instruction doesn't impact performance. Were you able to test
any performance?

Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg at intel.com>