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From: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, anatoly.burakov@intel.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] timer: don't check tsc flags in secondary processes
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:27:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <156586846064.44449.9348520751731980354.stgit@jrharri1-skx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156586845525.44449.11798632267644345382.stgit@jrharri1-skx>

check_tsc_flags() parses /proc/cpuinfo and prints
warning messages if any cores don't have constant_tsc
and nonstop_tsc.  It has no functional meaning.
This consumes a noticeable amount of time in
secondary processes - on my test system, it consumes
21ms out of the 66ms total execution time for
rte_eal_init().

So let's just skip checking these flags in secondary
processes.  Since the primary process is already
parsing the entirety of /proc/cpuinfo, the warning
printed in the primary process should be sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_timer.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_timer.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_timer.c
index 76ec17034..ce447d43b 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_timer.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_timer.c
@@ -198,6 +198,15 @@ check_tsc_flags(void)
 	char line[512];
 	FILE *stream;
 
+	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY) {
+		/* This function just prints warnings if TSC is not constant
+		 * and has no functional meaning.  It also checks *all* cores
+		 * on the system, not just the ones configured for this process.
+		 * So don't bother rechecking again in secondary processes.
+		 */
+		return;
+	}
+
 	stream = fopen("/proc/cpuinfo", "r");
 	if (!stream) {
 		RTE_LOG(WARNING, EAL, "WARNING: Unable to open /proc/cpuinfo\n");


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-15 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-15 11:27 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] timer: use rte_mp_msg to pass TSC hz to secondary procs Jim Harris
2019-08-15 11:27 ` Jim Harris [this message]
2019-08-16  7:56 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-16 19:01   ` Harris, James R
2019-08-26  9:54 ` Bruce Richardson

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