/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause * Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation */ #ifndef _RTE_PREFETCH_H_ #define _RTE_PREFETCH_H_ #include /** * @file * * Prefetch operations. * * This file defines an API for prefetch macros / inline-functions, * which are architecture-dependent. Prefetching occurs when a * processor requests an instruction or data from memory to cache * before it is actually needed, potentially speeding up the execution of the * program. */ /** * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels. * @param p * Address to prefetch */ static inline void rte_prefetch0(const volatile void *p); /** * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels except the 0th cache level. * @param p * Address to prefetch */ static inline void rte_prefetch1(const volatile void *p); /** * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels except the 0th and 1th cache * levels. * @param p * Address to prefetch */ static inline void rte_prefetch2(const volatile void *p); /** * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels (non-temporal/transient version) * * The non-temporal prefetch is intended as a prefetch hint that processor will * use the prefetched data only once or short period, unlike the * rte_prefetch0() function which imply that prefetched data to use repeatedly. * * @param p * Address to prefetch */ static inline void rte_prefetch_non_temporal(const volatile void *p); /** * @warning * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change, or be removed, without prior notice * * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels, with intention to write. This * prefetch variant hints to the CPU that the program is expecting to write to * the cache line being prefetched. * * @param p Address to prefetch */ __rte_experimental static inline void rte_prefetch0_write(const void *p) { /* 1 indicates intention to write, 3 sets target cache level to L1. See * GCC docs where these integer constants are described in more detail: * https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html */ __builtin_prefetch(p, 1, 3); } /** * @warning * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change, or be removed, without prior notice * * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels, except the 0th, with intention * to write. This prefetch variant hints to the CPU that the program is * expecting to write to the cache line being prefetched. * * @param p Address to prefetch */ __rte_experimental static inline void rte_prefetch1_write(const void *p) { /* 1 indicates intention to write, 2 sets target cache level to L2. See * GCC docs where these integer constants are described in more detail: * https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html */ __builtin_prefetch(p, 1, 2); } /** * @warning * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change, or be removed, without prior notice * * Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels, except the 0th and 1st, with * intention to write. This prefetch variant hints to the CPU that the program * is expecting to write to the cache line being prefetched. * * @param p Address to prefetch */ __rte_experimental static inline void rte_prefetch2_write(const void *p) { /* 1 indicates intention to write, 1 sets target cache level to L3. See * GCC docs where these integer constants are described in more detail: * https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html */ __builtin_prefetch(p, 1, 1); } /** * @warning * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change, or be removed, without prior notice * * Demote a cache line to a more distant level of cache from the processor. * CLDEMOTE hints to hardware to move (demote) a cache line from the closest to * the processor to a level more distant from the processor. It is a hint and * not guaranteed. rte_cldemote is intended to move the cache line to the more * remote cache, where it expects sharing to be efficient and to indicate that * a line may be accessed by a different core in the future. * * @param p * Address to demote */ __rte_experimental static inline void rte_cldemote(const volatile void *p); #endif /* _RTE_PREFETCH_H_ */