Re: [dpdk-users] Question on Multiple process support Application

[Kusuma DS <kusumanjali47@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the information.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 7:16 PM Cliff Burdick <shaklee3@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 04:56 Kusuma DS <kusumanjali47@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hii,
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>> I have some doubts regarding multiple process example application.
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>> I have 2 processes running in my setup using multiprocess client and
>> server
>> concept, am doing rx_burst in server process and tx_burst in client
>> process. But the thing is i have one isolated cpu, So both the process are
>> sharing the cpu.
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>> What i understand through the document provided by the dpdk is  In the
>> concept of memory pool there will be per core cache lock, so if we try to
>> do tx and rx in different process there will be software cache problem
>> will
>> occur, so there will be corrupting the memory in shared memory pool.
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>> How to resolve this issue??If anyone Know about this issue please let me
>> know.
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> The documentation specifies you can't lcores across processes:
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> "All DPDK processes running as a single application and using shared
> memory must have distinct coremask/corelist arguments. It is not possible
> to have a primary and secondary instance, or two secondary instances, using
> any of the same logical cores. Attempting to do so can cause corruption of
> memory pool caches, among other issues."
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> Have you tried two cores?
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>> Thanks,
>> Kusuma
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