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From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Felix Marti <felix@chelsio.com>,
	Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@chelsio.com>,
	Kumar A S <kumaras@chelsio.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] cxgbe: Optimize forwarding performance for 40G
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:37:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151005150729.GA8809@scalar.blr.asicdesigners.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB97725836AA37E2@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Monday, October 10/05/15, 2015 at 07:09:27 -0700, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
> Hi Rahul,

[...]

> > > > This additional check seems redundant for single segment
> > > > packets since rte_pktmbuf_free_seg also performs rte_mbuf_sanity_check.
> > > >
> > > > Several PMDs already prefer to use rte_pktmbuf_free_seg directly over
> > > > rte_pktmbuf_free as it is faster.
> > >
> > > Other PMDs use rte_pktmbuf_free_seg() as each TD has an associated
> > > with it segment. So as HW is done with the TD, SW frees associated segment.
> > > In your case I don't see any point in re-implementing rte_pktmbuf_free() manually,
> > > and I don't think it would be any faster.
> > >
> > > Konstantin
> > 
> > As I mentioned below, I am clearly seeing a difference of 1 Mpps. And 1
> > Mpps is not a small difference IMHO.
> 
> Agree with you here - it is a significant difference.
> 
> > 
> > When running l3fwd with 8 queues, I also collected a perf report.
> > When using rte_pktmbuf_free, I see that it eats up around 6% cpu as
> > below in perf top report:-
> > --------------------
> > 32.00%  l3fwd                        [.] cxgbe_poll
> > 22.25%  l3fwd                        [.] t4_eth_xmit
> > 20.30%  l3fwd                        [.] main_loop
> >  6.77%  l3fwd                        [.] rte_pktmbuf_free
> >  4.86%  l3fwd                        [.] refill_fl_usembufs
> >  2.00%  l3fwd                        [.] write_sgl
> > .....
> > --------------------
> > 
> > While, when using rte_pktmbuf_free_seg directly, I don't see above
> > problem. perf top report now comes as:-
> > -------------------
> > 33.36%  l3fwd                        [.] cxgbe_poll
> > 32.69%  l3fwd                        [.] t4_eth_xmit
> > 19.05%  l3fwd                        [.] main_loop
> >  5.21%  l3fwd                        [.] refill_fl_usembufs
> >  2.40%  l3fwd                        [.] write_sgl
> > ....
> > -------------------
> 
> I don't think these 6% disappeared anywhere.
> As I can see, now t4_eth_xmit() increased by roughly same amount
> (you still have same job to do).

Right.

> To me it looks like in that case compiler didn't really inline rte_pktmbuf_free().
> Wonder can you add 'always_inline' attribute to the  rte_pktmbuf_free(),
> and see would it make any difference?
> 
> Konstantin 

I will try out above and update further.


Thanks,
Rahul.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-05 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-02 11:16 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] cxgbe: Optimize tx/rx for 40GbE and add Jumbo Frame support for CXGBE PMD Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-02 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] cxgbe: Optimize forwarding performance for 40G Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-02 21:48   ` Aaron Conole
2015-10-05 10:06     ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-05 11:46       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-10-05 12:42         ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-05 14:09           ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-10-05 15:07             ` Rahul Lakkireddy [this message]
2015-10-07 15:27               ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-02 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] cxgbe: Update device info and perform sanity checks to enable jumbo frames Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-02 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6] cxgbe: Update tx path to transmit " Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-02 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] cxgbe: Update rx path to receive " Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-02 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] cxgbe: Allow apps to change mtu Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-02 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] doc: Update cxgbe documentation and release notes Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-08 13:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] cxgbe: Optimize tx/rx for 40GbE and add Jumbo Frame support for CXGBE PMD Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-08 13:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] cxgbe: Optimize forwarding performance for 40G Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-08 13:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] cxgbe: Update device info and perform sanity checks to enable jumbo frames Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-08 13:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] cxgbe: Update tx path to transmit " Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-08 13:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] cxgbe: Update rx path to receive " Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-08 13:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] cxgbe: Allow apps to change mtu Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-08 13:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] doc: Update cxgbe documentation and release notes Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-10-20 16:51   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] cxgbe: Optimize tx/rx for 40GbE and add Jumbo Frame support for CXGBE PMD Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-21  6:14     ` Rahul Lakkireddy

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