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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, hhaim@cisco.com, stable@dpdk.org
Cc: matvejchikov@gmail.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] mbuf: fix mbuf free performance with non atomic refcnt
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:28:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171211102824.fshpnmxuxun5pp54@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171208154651.16546-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com>

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 04:46:51PM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote:
> When RTE_MBUF_REFCNT_ATOMIC=n, the decrement of the mbuf reference
> counter uses an atomic operation. This is not necessary and impacts
> the performance (seen with TRex traffic generator).
> 
> We cannot replace rte_atomic16_add_return() by rte_mbuf_refcnt_update()
> because it would add an additional check.
> 
> Solves this by introducing __rte_mbuf_refcnt_update(), which
> updates the reference counter without doing anything else.
> 
> Fixes: 8f094a9ac5d7 ("mbuf: set mbuf fields while in pool")
> Suggested-by: Hanoch Haim <hhaim@cisco.com>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

Forgot to Cc stable@dpdk.org

       reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20171115091413.27119-1-hhaim@cisco.com>
     [not found] ` <20171208154651.16546-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com>
2017-12-11 10:28   ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2018-01-18 23:23   ` Thomas Monjalon

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