From: Jieqiang Wang <jieqiang.wang@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 04:05:33 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: build: modify N_PREFETCH on Arm N2 to achieve best perf
X-Git-Tag: v24.06-rc0~250
X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fchanges%2F53%2F39353%2F8;p=vpp.git

build: modify N_PREFETCH on Arm N2 to achieve best perf

From GCC 12, march=armv9-a option is supported, which includes the sve
and crc options needed. Furthermore, VPP L3Fwd benchmark results on N2
based servers show that N_PREFETCH set to 6 gives the best performance.

Type: feature

Signed-off-by: Lijian Zhang <Lijian.Zhang@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jieqiang Wang <jieqiang.wang@arm.com>
Change-Id: I9c4fcad84d4db1189d956dabab22b26d020fbfd6
---

diff --git a/src/cmake/cpu.cmake b/src/cmake/cpu.cmake
index f683b62b8f4..18a1210f541 100644
--- a/src/cmake/cpu.cmake
+++ b/src/cmake/cpu.cmake
@@ -194,10 +194,9 @@ elseif(CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR MATCHES "^(aarch64.*|AARCH64.*)")
     N_PREFETCHES 6
     CACHE_PREFETCH_BYTES 64
   )
-
   add_vpp_march_variant(neoversen2
-    FLAGS -march=armv8.6-a+crc+crypto+sve2 -mtune=neoverse-n2
-    N_PREFETCHES 8
+    FLAGS -march=armv9-a+crypto -mtune=neoverse-n2
+    N_PREFETCHES 6
     CACHE_PREFETCH_BYTES 64
     OFF
   )