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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, anatoly.burakov@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] timer: use rte_mp_msg to pass TSC hz to secondary procs
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:54:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190826095457.GC1731@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156586845525.44449.11798632267644345382.stgit@jrharri1-skx>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:27:35AM -0700, Jim Harris wrote:
> rte_eal_init() is much faster in secondary processes since
> hugepages don't need to be zeroed.  But there's still
> non-trivial delays in the timer subsystem initialization
> due to the 100ms sleep used to calculate TSC hz.  So use
> the rte_mp_msg framework to allow secondary processes
> to get the TSC hz from the primary process.
> 
> This cuts rte_eal_init() execution time in a secondary
> process from 165ms to 66ms in my test program.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
> ---

Rather than messaging, can we not just move the CPU frequency to being
stored in a shared memory location? It's not something where different
processes are going to need to be provided with different values.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-26  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-15 11:27 Jim Harris
2019-08-15 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] timer: don't check tsc flags in secondary processes Jim Harris
2019-08-16  7:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] timer: use rte_mp_msg to pass TSC hz to secondary procs Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-16 19:01   ` Harris, James R
2019-08-26  9:54 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]

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