VPP/Missing Prefetches

Introduction

vpp graph nodes make extensive use of explicit prefetching to cover dependent read latency. In the simplest dual-loop case, we prefetch buffer headers and (typically) one cache line worth of packet data. The rest of this page shows what happens if we disable the prefetch block.

Baseline

Single-core, 13 MPPS offered load, i40e NICs, ~13 MPPS in+out:

vpp# show run
             Name                 Clocks       Vectors/Call  
FortyGigabitEthernet84/0/1-out         9.08e0           50.09
FortyGigabitEthernet84/0/1-tx          3.84e1           50.09
dpdk-input                             7.45e1           50.09
interface-output                       1.08e1           50.09
ip4-input-no-checksum                  3.92e1           50.09
ip4-lookup                             3.88e1           50.09
ip4-rewrite-transit                    3.43e1           50.09