From: Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: input port in mbuf
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 20:17:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM5PR18MB22149AC1AEFFA6569DCB597DC6A40@DM5PR18MB2214.namprd18.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200506131031.6379f80a@hermes.lan>
For performance optimizations, we need to know the input DPDK port as after the buffer was transmitted via our ethdev driver instead of release it back to the memory-pool we can release it to the originated HW pool of the input port.
Regards,
Liron
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:11
To: Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>
Cc: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] input port in mbuf
On Wed, 6 May 2020 19:48:26 +0000
Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com> wrote:
> Fine. Is there another location or option to save this information?
>
> Regards,
> Liron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2020 22:43
> To: Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>
> Cc: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] input port in mbuf
>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 6 May 2020 19:21:30 +0000
> Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We need to save the input port in the mbuf in order to return the buffer to the right hw pool.
> > For now we use the 'port' in the mbuf as it is supposed to be for this exact purpose.
> > But we noticed that some applications are override it with the destination port.
> >
> > What should be the right behavior?
> > is there another location that that this information can be stored and read only by the ethdev drivers?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Liron
> >
>
> There is no requirement that input port is unmodified by the application.
The memory pool is already in the mbuf, should go there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 19:21 [dpdk-dev] " Liron Himi
2020-05-06 19:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-05-06 19:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Liron Himi
2020-05-06 20:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-05-06 20:17 ` Liron Himi [this message]
2020-05-06 20:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-01-16 20:01 ` Liron Himi
2021-01-27 16:58 ` Tom Barbette
2021-01-27 17:59 ` Liron Himi
2020-05-06 22:10 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
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