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i40e: Use batched xsk Tx interfaces to increase performance

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Use the new batched xsk interfaces for the Tx path in the i40e driver
to improve performance. On my machine, this yields a throughput
increase of 4% for the l2fwd sample app in xdpsock. If we instead just
look at the Tx part, this patch set increases throughput with above
20% for Tx.

Note that I had to explicitly loop unroll the inner loop to get to
this performance level, by using a pragma. It is honored by both clang
and gcc and should be ignored by versions that do not support
it. Using the -funroll-loops compiler command line switch on the
source file resulted in a loop unrolling on a higher level that
lead to a performance decrease instead of an increase.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1605525167-14450-6-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
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Magnus Karlsson 2020-11-16 12:12:47 +01:00 • committed by Daniel Borkmann
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