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Changed "priv.clock.lock" lock from 'rw_lock' to 'seq_lock' in order to improve packet rate performance. Tested on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz. Sent 64b packets between two peers connected by ConnectX-5, and measured packet rate for the receiver in three modes: no time-stamping (base rate) time-stamping using rw_lock (old lock) for critical region time-stamping using seq_lock (new lock) for critical region Only the receiver time stamped its packets. The measured packet rate improvements are: Single flow (multiple TX rings to single RX ring): without timestamping: 4.26 (M packets)/sec with rw-lock (old lock): 4.1 (M packets)/sec with seq-lock (new lock): 4.16 (M packets)/sec 1.46% improvement Multiple flows (multiple TX rings to six RX rings): without timestamping: 22 (M packets)/sec with rw-lock (old lock): 11.7 (M packets)/sec with seq-lock (new lock): 21.3 (M packets)/sec 82.05% improvement The packet rate improvement is due to the lack of atomic operations for the 'readers' by the seq-lock. Since there are much more 'readers' than 'writers' contention on this lock, almost all atomic operations are saved. this results in a dramatic decrease in overall cache misses. Signed-off-by: Shay Agroskin <shayag@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> |
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| fs_helpers.h | ||
| mlx5_ifc.h | ||
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| port.h | ||
| qp.h | ||
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| transobj.h | ||
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