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From: Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-preston@foss.arm.com>
To: "Andrew Rybchenko" <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
	"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Wathsala Vithanage <wathsala.vithanage@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify mempool striding optimisation on Arm
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:44:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240715144420.36292-1-jack.bond-preston@foss.arm.com> (raw)

The mempool memory channel striding optimisation is not necessary on
Arm platforms.
Update the Programmer's Guide's mempool section to clarify this.

Signed-off-by: Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-preston@foss.arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Wathsala Vithanage <wathsala.vithanage@arm.com>
---
 doc/guides/prog_guide/mempool_lib.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/mempool_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/mempool_lib.rst
index 4db577fe18..988b0e80c1 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/mempool_lib.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/mempool_lib.rst
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ When creating a new pool, the user can specify to use this feature or not.
 
 .. _mempool_local_cache:
 
+.. note::
+
+    This feature is not present for Arm systems. Modern Arm Interconnects choose the SN-F (memory
+    channel) using a hash of memory address bits. As a result, the load is distributed evenly in all
+    cases, including the above described, rendering this feature unnecessary.
+
 Local Cache
 -----------
 
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2024-07-15 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-15 14:44 Jack Bond-Preston [this message]
2024-07-17  2:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-07-17 10:40   ` Bruce Richardson
2024-07-29 19:46 ` Thomas Monjalon

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