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From: "Carrillo, Erik G" <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com" <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	"ruifeng.wang@arm.com" <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>,
	"dharmik.thakkar@arm.com" <dharmik.thakkar@arm.com>,
	"nd@arm.com" <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] eventdev: use c11 atomics for lcore timer armed flag
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:31:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CY4PR1101MB2118B18DB87C1CD779201305B9940@CY4PR1101MB2118.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200623142002.6b997568@hermes.lan>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:20 PM
> To: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Carrillo, Erik G <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>;
> drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com; honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com;
> ruifeng.wang@arm.com; dharmik.thakkar@arm.com; nd@arm.com
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] eventdev: use c11 atomics for lcore
> timer armed flag
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:19:57 +0800
> Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> >  	/* Track which cores have actually armed a timer */
> >  	struct {
> > -		rte_atomic16_t v;
> > +		int16_t v;
> >  	} __rte_cache_aligned in_use[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
> 
> Do you really need this to be cache aligned (ie one per line)?

I believe I did this originally to keep a cache line from bouncing when two different cores are arming timers, so it's not strictly necessary.

> Why have a signed value for a reference count? Shouldn't it be unsigned?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-23 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-12 11:19 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] eventdev: fix race condition on timer list counter Phil Yang
2020-06-12 11:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] eventdev: use c11 atomics for lcore timer armed flag Phil Yang
2020-06-23 21:01   ` Carrillo, Erik G
2020-06-28 16:12     ` Phil Yang
2020-06-23 21:20   ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-06-23 21:31     ` Carrillo, Erik G [this message]
2020-06-28 16:32       ` Phil Yang
2020-06-12 11:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] eventdev: relax smp barriers with c11 atomics Phil Yang
2020-06-22 10:12   ` Phil Yang
2020-06-23 19:38     ` Carrillo, Erik G
2020-06-28 17:33       ` Phil Yang
2020-06-29 18:07         ` Carrillo, Erik G
2020-06-18 15:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] eventdev: fix race condition on timer list counter Carrillo, Erik G
2020-06-18 18:25   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-22  9:48     ` Phil Yang
2020-07-01 11:22       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-02  3:28         ` Phil Yang
2020-07-02  3:26     ` Phil Yang
2020-07-02  3:56       ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-02 21:15         ` Carrillo, Erik G
2020-07-02 21:30           ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-22  9:09   ` Phil Yang
2020-07-02  5:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] " Phil Yang
2020-07-02  5:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] eventdev: use c11 atomics for lcore timer armed flag Phil Yang
2020-07-02 20:21     ` Carrillo, Erik G
2020-07-02  5:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] eventdev: remove redundant code Phil Yang
2020-07-03  3:35     ` Dharmik Thakkar
2020-07-02  5:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] eventdev: relax smp barriers with c11 atomics Phil Yang
2020-07-02 20:30     ` Carrillo, Erik G
2020-07-03 10:50       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-06 10:04     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-06 15:32       ` Phil Yang
2020-07-06 15:40         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-07 11:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] eventdev: fix race condition on timer list counter Phil Yang
2020-07-07 11:13     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] eventdev: use C11 atomics for lcore timer armed flag Phil Yang
2020-07-07 11:13     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] eventdev: remove redundant code Phil Yang
2020-07-07 11:13     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] eventdev: relax smp barriers with C11 atomics Phil Yang
2020-07-07 14:29       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-07 15:56         ` Phil Yang
2020-07-07 15:54     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] eventdev: fix race condition on timer list counter Phil Yang
2020-07-07 15:54       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/4] eventdev: use C11 atomics for lcore timer armed flag Phil Yang
2020-07-07 15:54       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/4] eventdev: remove redundant code Phil Yang
2020-07-07 15:54       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/4] eventdev: relax smp barriers with C11 atomics Phil Yang
2020-07-08 13:30       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] eventdev: fix race condition on timer list counter Jerin Jacob
2020-07-08 15:01         ` Thomas Monjalon

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