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> From: Rakesh Kudurumalla
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2024 12:43 PM
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> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] examples/l2fwd-jobstats: fix lock
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rakesh Kudurumalla
> > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2024 10:55 AM
> > To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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> > <jerinj@marvell.com>; Nithin Kumar Dabilpuram
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> > Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] examples/l2fwd-jobstats:
> > fix lock availability
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2024 9:47 PM
> > > To: Rakesh Kudurumalla <rkudurumalla@marvell.com>
> > > Cc: ferruh.yigit@amd.com; andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru;
> > > orika@nvidia.com; thomas@monjalon.net; dev@dpdk.org; Jerin Jacob
> > > <jerinj@marvell.com>; Nithin Kumar Dabilpuram
> > > <ndabilpuram@marvell.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] examples/l2fwd-jobstats: fix
> > > lock availability
> > >
> > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21: 29: 57 +0530 Rakesh Kudurumalla
> > <rkudurumalla@
> > > marvell. com> wrote: > Race condition between jobstats and time
> > > metrics > for forwarding and flushing is maintained using spinlock.
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> > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:29:57 +0530
> > > Rakesh Kudurumalla <rkudurumalla@marvell.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Race condition between jobstats and time metrics for forwarding
> > > > and flushing is maintained using spinlock.
> > > > Timer metrics are not displayed properly due to the frequent
> > > > unavailability of the lock.This patch fixes the issue by
> > > > introducing a delay before acquiring the lock in the loop. This
> > > > delay allows for betteravailability of the lock, ensuring that
> > > > show_lcore_stats() can periodically update the statistics even
> > > > when forwarding jobs are running.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 204896f8d66c ("examples/l2fwd-jobstats: add new example")
> > > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rakesh Kudurumalla <rkudurumalla@marvell.com>
> > >
> > > Would be better if this code used RCU and not a lock
> >
> > Currently the jobstats app uses the lock only for collecting single
> > snapshot of different statistics and printing the same from main core.
> > With RCU since we cannot pause the worker core to collect such a
> > single snapshot, integrating RCU would need a full redesign of the
> > application and would take lot of effort.