DPDK patches and discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/power: power pmd errata with RTM and gcc-9
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:11:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d60817bc-167a-2c15-23e3-914dcc304305@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4149792.kQq0lBPeGt@thomas>


On 16/3/2022 7:44 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 09/03/2022 14:22, David Hunt:
>> An errata exists where users may see reduced power savings when using
>> PMD Power Management. This issue occurs when compiling DPDK applications
>> with gcc-9 on platforms with TSX enabled. In rte_power_monitor_multi(),
>> the function may return without successfully starting the RTM
>> transaction (the _xbegin() fails).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> Is there a way to fix it or should we keep this errata forever?


If it's a gcc-9 issue, then we'll have to get the assistance to fix. 
I've send the relevant information on to the gcc folks for analysis, and 
I'll follow up at regular intervals.

I would hope to be able to remove the errata within the next one or two 
releases.



      reply	other threads:[~2022-03-22 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-09 13:22 David Hunt
2022-03-16 19:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-03-22 16:11   ` David Hunt [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=d60817bc-167a-2c15-23e3-914dcc304305@intel.com \
    --to=david.hunt@intel.com \
    --cc=dev@dpdk.org \
    --cc=thomas@monjalon.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).