From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02C3376C for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:09:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Feb 2017 06:09:44 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,201,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="61823178" Received: from bricha3-mobl3.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.61]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2017 06:09:42 -0800 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:09:41 +0000 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:09:41 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: David Hunt Cc: dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20170224140941.GF106392@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <1485163480-156507-2-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <1487647073-129064-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <1487647073-129064-5-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1487647073-129064-5-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> Organization: Intel Research and =?iso-8859-1?Q?De=ACvel?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?opment?= Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 04/17] lib: add new burst oriented distributor structs X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:09:46 -0000 On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:17:40AM +0000, David Hunt wrote: > Signed-off-by: David Hunt > --- > lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor_private.h | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor_private.h b/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor_private.h > index 2d85b9b..c8e0f98 100644 > --- a/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor_private.h > +++ b/lib/librte_distributor/rte_distributor_private.h > @@ -129,6 +129,67 @@ struct rte_distributor_v20 { > struct rte_distributor_returned_pkts returns; > }; > > +/* All different signature compare functions */ > +enum rte_distributor_match_function { > + RTE_DIST_MATCH_SCALAR = 0, > + RTE_DIST_MATCH_VECTOR, > + RTE_DIST_NUM_MATCH_FNS > +}; > + > +/** > + * Buffer structure used to pass the pointer data between cores. This is cache > + * line aligned, but to improve performance and prevent adjacent cache-line > + * prefetches of buffers for other workers, e.g. when worker 1's buffer is on > + * the next cache line to worker 0, we pad this out to two cache lines. > + * We can pass up to 8 mbufs at a time in one cacheline. > + * There is a separate cacheline for returns in the burst API. > + */ > +struct rte_distributor_buffer { > + volatile int64_t bufptr64[RTE_DIST_BURST_SIZE] > + __rte_cache_aligned; /* <= outgoing to worker */ > + > + int64_t pad1 __rte_cache_aligned; /* <= one cache line */ > + > + volatile int64_t retptr64[RTE_DIST_BURST_SIZE] > + __rte_cache_aligned; /* <= incoming from worker */ > + > + int64_t pad2 __rte_cache_aligned; /* <= one cache line */ > + > + int count __rte_cache_aligned; /* <= number of current mbufs */ > +}; Rather than adding padding elements here, would it be better and clearer just to align the values to 128B (or more strictly CACHE_LINE_SZ * 2)? /Bruce