The concept of memory pool cache is different from the CPU architecture cache.

Unlike some DSP, in the modern CPU and system, it is not a common use case to assign addresses to the cache and lock them as a memory. In especial, the data buffer is too large.

The memory pool cache is a LIFO to store the pointers and trying to reduce the memory footprints and reduce the CPU cache conflict and eviction. (Always try to use the used memory previously)

Only when trying to access the memory itself, a whole cache line will be checked and try to be loaded. It is impossible that a CPU load a whole buffer (2KB for example) directly without any READ / WRITE / FLUSH to the cache.

BR. Bing

From: lonc0002@yahoo.com <lonc0002@yahoo.com>
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Hello,

When doing a rte_mempool_get_bulk() with a cache enabled mempool, first objects are retrieved from cache and then from the common pool which I assume is sitting in shared memory (DDR or L3?). Wouldn’t accessing the objects from the mempool in shared memory itself pull those objects into processor cache? Can this be avoided?

Thanks,
Vince