[PATCH v2 0/2] net: thunderx: Performance enhancement changes

From: sunil . kovvuri
Date: Mon Mar 14 2016 - 07:03:07 EST


From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxx>

Below patches attempts to improve performance by reducing
no of atomic operations while allocating new receive buffers
and reducing cache misses by adjusting nicvf structure elements.

Changes from v1:
No changes, resubmitting a fresh as per David's suggestion.

Sunil Goutham (2):
net: thunderx: Set recevie buffer page usage count in bulk
net: thunderx: Adjust nicvf structure to reduce cache misses

drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h | 51 ++++++++++++--------
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c | 31 +++++++++---
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)