From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Vladyslav Buslov <vladyslav.buslov@harmonicinc.com>
Cc: <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Performance optimization of ACL build process
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:24:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831082456.21423b42@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160816140128.10149-1-vladyslav.buslov@harmonicinc.com>
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:01:27 +0300
Vladyslav Buslov <vladyslav.buslov@harmonicinc.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In our application we need to be able to allocate tens of thousands of ACLs at runtime.
> Testing revealed significant performance problems. We were able to track them to memset in calloc function which caused multiple page walks per invocation.
> Modifying tb_mem to use huge page memory resulted ~2x performance gain for that operation.
>
> Regards,
> Vladyslav
>
> Vladyslav Buslov (1):
> acl: use rte_calloc for temporary memory allocation
>
> lib/librte_acl/tb_mem.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
What about making sure that the ACL code does it's own initialization of all fields
and just use malloc rather than calloc?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-31 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-16 14:01 Vladyslav Buslov
2016-08-16 14:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] acl: use rte_calloc for temporary memory allocation Vladyslav Buslov
2016-08-31 1:27 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-08-31 8:38 ` Vladyslav Buslov
2016-08-31 9:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-31 9:59 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-08-31 15:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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