Jerin Jacob ab3af0959d eal: introduce non-temporal prefetch
non-temporal/transient/stream version of rte_prefetch0()

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.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
2016-02-16 07:19:19 +01:00

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#ifndef _RTE_PREFETCH_H_
#define _RTE_PREFETCH_H_
/**
* @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);
#endif /* _RTE_PREFETCH_H_ */