net: mvneta: prefetch next rx descriptor instead of current one
authorwilly tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:20:15 +0000 (08:20 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:15:42 +0000 (15:15 -0800)
Currently, the mvneta driver tries to prefetch the current Rx
descriptor during read. Tests have shown that prefetching the
next one instead increases general performance by about 1% on
HTTP traffic.

Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c

Simple merge