From: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: olivier.matz@6wind.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com,
bruce.richardson@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] doc: add NB stack comment to EAL "known issues"
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:55:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190110205538.24435-4-gage.eads@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190110205538.24435-1-gage.eads@intel.com>
This comment makes users aware of the non-blocking stack option and its
caveats.
Signed-off-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
index 929d76dba..9497b879c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
@@ -541,6 +541,11 @@ Known Issues
5. It MUST not be used by multi-producer/consumer pthreads, whose scheduling policies are SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR.
+ Alternatively, x86_64 applications can use the non-blocking stack mempool handler. When considering this handler, note that:
+
+ - it is limited to the x86_64 platform, because it uses an instruction (16-byte compare-and-swap) that is not available on other platforms.
+ - it has worse average-case performance than the non-preemptive rte_ring, but software caching (e.g. the mempool cache) can mitigate this by reducing the number of handler operations.
+
+ rte_timer
Running ``rte_timer_manage()`` on a non-EAL pthread is not allowed. However, resetting/stopping the timer from a non-EAL pthread is allowed.
--
2.13.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-10 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-10 20:55 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Add non-blocking stack mempool handler Gage Eads
2019-01-10 20:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] eal: add 128-bit cmpset (x86-64 only) Gage Eads
2019-01-13 12:18 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-01-14 4:29 ` Varghese, Vipin
2019-01-14 15:46 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-16 4:34 ` Varghese, Vipin
2019-01-14 15:43 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-10 20:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] mempool/nb_stack: add non-blocking stack mempool Gage Eads
2019-01-13 13:31 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-01-14 16:22 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-10 20:55 ` Gage Eads [this message]
2019-01-15 22:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Add non-blocking stack mempool handler Gage Eads
2019-01-15 22:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] eal: add 128-bit cmpset (x86-64 only) Gage Eads
2019-01-17 8:49 ` Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
2019-01-17 15:14 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-17 15:57 ` Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
2019-01-15 22:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] mempool/nb_stack: add non-blocking stack mempool Gage Eads
2019-01-16 7:13 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-01-17 8:06 ` Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
2019-01-17 14:11 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-17 14:20 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-01-17 15:16 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-17 15:42 ` Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
2019-01-17 20:41 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-16 15:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Add non-blocking stack mempool handler Gage Eads
2019-01-16 15:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] eal: add 128-bit cmpset (x86-64 only) Gage Eads
2019-01-17 15:45 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-17 23:03 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-18 5:27 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-18 22:01 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-22 20:30 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-22 22:25 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-24 5:21 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-25 17:19 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-16 15:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] mempool/nb_stack: add non-blocking stack mempool Gage Eads
2019-01-17 15:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] Add non-blocking stack mempool handler Gage Eads
2019-01-17 15:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: add 128-bit cmpset (x86-64 only) Gage Eads
2019-01-17 15:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] mempool/nb_stack: add non-blocking stack mempool Gage Eads
2019-01-18 5:05 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-01-18 20:09 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-19 0:00 ` Eads, Gage
2019-01-19 0:15 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-01-22 18:24 ` Eads, Gage
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