From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072D82C1A for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:34:38 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=intel; t=1489484079; x=1521020079; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date: mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hyQSk9EYeHJlWgFLsdYHibdqNPQZHAuRTYqb704SbOs=; b=MblULR+H1FIyxXkUVQ1FsSiNM6MlEivs7Pdf8vH2JLp6Kq9plAuMIbI6 Bye5n+dvC30xpQc5ur6MRnZicGNkCg==; Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 Mar 2017 02:34:38 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,162,1486454400"; d="scan'208";a="75172681" Received: from dhunt5-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.221.69]) ([10.237.221.69]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Mar 2017 02:34:37 -0700 To: Bruce Richardson References: <1488354455-142764-2-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <1488791433-186137-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <1488791433-186137-17-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <20170310165148.GG339712@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org From: "Hunt, David" Message-ID: <99629b14-1945-0474-dfd7-be53a50750a8@intel.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:34:36 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170310165148.GG339712@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 16/18] examples/distributor: give Rx thread a core 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: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:34:39 -0000 On 10/3/2017 4:51 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:10:31AM +0000, David Hunt wrote: >> This so that with the increased amount of stats we are counting, >> we don't interfere with the rx core. >> > Where are the stats being counted in the current code and how would they > interfere? > > /Bruce Previous version of the distributor example did not print out several lines of statistics every second, which the new version does. I felt that it it would be better to separate this off to it's own core, so that the rx core performance would not be impacted. I'll add an extra comment in the commit message. Regards, Dave.