From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
To: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Cc: nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: remove excessive data prefetch
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:44:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180313124459.GI3994@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180312170545.16165-1-yskoh@mellanox.com>
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:05:45AM -0700, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> In Enhanced Multi-Packet Send (eMPW), entire packet data is prefetched to
> LLC if it isn't inlined. Even though this helps reducing jitter when HW
> fetches data by DMA, this can thresh the LLC with evicting precious data.
> And if the size of queue is large and there are many queues, this might not
> be effective. Also, if application runs on a remote node from the PCIe
> link, it may not be helpful and can even cause bad results.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
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Adrien Mazarguil
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2018-03-12 17:05 Yongseok Koh
2018-03-13 12:44 ` Adrien Mazarguil [this message]
2018-04-03 4:58 ` Shahaf Shuler
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