ixgbe: performance tweaks
authorJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:33:29 +0000 (11:33 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:43:22 +0000 (15:43 -0800)
commit7ca3bc582cd24c2e6c0693a2ba2c71f3c2419c8b
tree4d49eb3c71f7b42a1007dce4c895acbef6c35454
parent6bacb3007928deeb30ddd2a3b6d5011bc7e5a01f
ixgbe: performance tweaks

drop variables that had cache lines modified in simultaneous hot paths.
keep some variables modified on hot paths but make their storage per queue.
cache align DMA data buffer start addresses.
cache align (padding) some structures that end within a cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c