net/mlx5e: Use prefetchw when a write is to follow
"prefetchw()" prefetches the cacheline for write. Use it for skb->data, as soon we'll be copying the packet header there. Performance: Single-stream packet-rate tested with pktgen. Packets are dropped in tc level to zoom into driver data-path. Larger gain is expected for smaller packets, as less time is spent on handling SKB fragments, making the path shorter and the improvement more significant. --------------------------------------------- packet size | before | after | gain | 64B | 4,113,306 | 4,778,720 | 16% | 1024B | 3,633,819 | 3,950,593 | 8.7% | Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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