net: add prefetch() in skb_defer_free_flush()

skb_defer_free_flush() is becoming more important these days.

Add a prefetch operation to reduce latency a bit on some
platforms like AMD EPYC 7B12.

On more recent cpus, a stall happens when reading skb_shinfo().
Avoiding it will require a more elaborate strategy.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106085500.2438951-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Eric Dumazet
2025-11-06 08:55:00 +00:00
committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent 01c87d7f48
commit fd9557c360

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@@ -6782,6 +6782,7 @@ static void skb_defer_free_flush(void)
free_list = llist_del_all(&sdn->defer_list);
llist_for_each_entry_safe(skb, next, free_list, ll_node) {
prefetch(next);
napi_consume_skb(skb, 1);
}
}