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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: "Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECH SRO at Cisco)"
	<jgrajcia@cisco.com>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Phil Yang <Phil.Yang@arm.com>
Cc: nd <nd@arm.com>, "stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/8] net/memif: do not update local copy of tail in tx function
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:59:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eebace72-10d9-cdbe-a0ef-8a5716fd59b8@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN8PR11MB3572E3634BFD479200B6A38BDF080@BN8PR11MB3572.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On 10/9/2020 12:23 PM, Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECH SRO at Cisco) 
wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 2:03 PM
>>> To: dev@dpdk.org; Honnappa Nagarahalli
>> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>;
>>> Phil Yang <Phil.Yang@arm.com>; jgrajcia@cisco.com;
>>> ferruh.yigit@intel.com
>>> Cc: nd <nd@arm.com>; stable@dpdk.org
>>> Subject: [PATCH v2 1/8] net/memif: do not update local copy of tail in
>>> tx function
>>>
>>> In the case of S2M queues, the receiver synchronizes with the sender (i.e.
>>> informs of the packets it has received) using ring->tail.
>>> Hence, the sender does not need to update last_tail.
>>>
>>> In the case of M2S queues, the receiver uses last_tail to keep track
>>> of the descriptors it has received. The sender is not required to update the
>> last_tail.
>>> Updating the last_tail makes it a shared variable between the
>>> transmitter and receiver affecting the performance.
> 
> Hi Honnappa,
> 
> The patch series is looking good.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Grajciar <jgrajcia@cisco.com>
> 

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-21 19:22 [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/4] " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-21 19:22 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/4] net/memif: relax the load of ring tail pointer for M2S ring Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-21 19:22 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 3/4] net/memif: relax the load of ring head pointer for S2M ring Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-21 19:22 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 4/4] net/memif: relax the load of ring head pointer for M2S ring Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-28 19:03 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/8] net/memif: do not update local copy of tail in tx function Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-28 19:03   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/8] net/memif: relax the load of ring tail pointer for M2S ring Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-28 19:03   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 3/8] net/memif: relax the load of ring head " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-28 19:03   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 4/8] net/memif: relax the load of ring head pointer for S2M ring Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-28 20:53   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/8] net/memif: do not update local copy of tail in tx function Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-29  5:24     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-10-07 17:08   ` [dpdk-stable] " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-10-09 11:23     ` Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECH SRO at Cisco)
2020-10-09 15:59       ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]

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