From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>,
<olivier.matz@6wind.com>, <viktorin@rehivetech.com>,
<shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) mempool handler
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:12:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160621034256.GB4903@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3416153.NDoMD8TpjF@xps13>
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 03:54:20PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-06-20 18:55, Jerin Jacob:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:08:10PM +0100, David Hunt wrote:
> > > This is a mempool handler that is useful for pipelining apps, where
> > > the mempool cache doesn't really work - example, where we have one
> > > core doing rx (and alloc), and another core doing Tx (and return). In
> > > such a case, the mempool ring simply cycles through all the mbufs,
> > > resulting in a LLC miss on every mbuf allocated when the number of
> > > mbufs is large. A stack recycles buffers more effectively in this
> > > case.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > lib/librte_mempool/Makefile | 1 +
> > > lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_stack.c | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > How about moving new mempool handlers to drivers/mempool? (or similar).
> > In future, adding HW specific handlers in lib/librte_mempool/ may be bad idea.
>
> You're probably right.
> However we need to check and understand what a HW mempool handler will be.
> I imagine the first of them will have to move handlers in drivers/
> Jerin, are you volunteer?
Thomas,
We are planning to upstream a HW based mempool handler.
Not sure about the timelines. We will take up this as part of a HW
based mempool upstreaming if no one takes it before that.
Jerin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-05 18:29 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] mempool: add stack (fifo) " David Hunt
2016-05-05 18:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] " David Hunt
2016-05-05 21:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-05-19 15:21 ` Hunt, David
2016-05-05 18:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] test: add autotest for external mempool stack handler David Hunt
2016-05-06 8:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] mempool: add stack (fifo) mempool handler Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-06 23:02 ` Hunt, David
2016-05-19 14:48 ` [dpdk-dev] v2 mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-05-19 14:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] " David Hunt
2016-05-23 12:55 ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-15 10:10 ` Hunt, David
2016-06-17 14:18 ` Hunt, David
2016-06-20 8:17 ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-20 12:59 ` Hunt, David
2016-06-29 14:31 ` Olivier MATZ
2016-05-19 14:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] mempool: make declaration of handler structs const David Hunt
2016-05-23 12:55 ` Olivier Matz
2016-05-24 14:01 ` Hunt, David
2016-05-19 14:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] test: add autotest for external mempool stack handler David Hunt
2016-05-19 15:16 ` [dpdk-dev] v2 mempool: add stack (lifo) mempool handler Hunt, David
2016-06-20 13:08 ` [dpdk-dev] mempool: add stack " David Hunt
2016-06-20 13:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-06-20 13:25 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-20 13:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-20 13:58 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-20 14:22 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-20 17:56 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-21 3:35 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-21 9:28 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-21 9:44 ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-21 3:42 ` Jerin Jacob [this message]
2016-06-20 13:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] test: add autotest for external mempool stack handler David Hunt
2016-06-30 7:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler David Hunt
2016-06-30 7:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-06-30 7:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] test: migrate custom handler test to stack handler David Hunt
2016-06-30 9:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-30 17:36 ` Hunt, David
2016-06-30 17:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-30 17:49 ` Hunt, David
2016-06-30 18:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler David Hunt
2016-06-30 18:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-06-30 18:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] test: migrate custom handler test to stack handler David Hunt
2016-07-01 7:32 ` Olivier MATZ
2016-07-01 7:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler David Hunt
2016-07-01 7:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-07-01 7:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] test: migrate custom handler test to stack handler David Hunt
2016-07-01 8:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler Olivier MATZ
2016-07-01 10:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
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