From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: "David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>,
<konstantin.v.ananyev@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dumpcap: fix mbuf pool ring type
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 08:50:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231108085049.7744425c@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9EFEC@smartserver.smartshare.dk>
On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 18:38:32 +0100
Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> > If user decides to use a thread unsafe mempool, wouldn't it break in
> > every PMD as well.
>
> Yes, except if the application only uses one thread for packet processing. Then thread safety is not necessary.
>
If application only used single thread then single consumer pool would work fine
for dumpcap. Only the primary thread would ever allocate. But both secondary and
primary could be freeing mbuf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-08 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-04 16:16 Stephen Hemminger
2023-08-05 9:05 ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-02 7:33 ` David Marchand
2023-10-02 8:42 ` Morten Brørup
2023-11-06 19:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-06 21:50 ` Morten Brørup
2023-11-07 2:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-07 7:22 ` Morten Brørup
2023-11-07 16:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-07 17:38 ` Morten Brørup
2023-11-08 16:50 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-11-08 17:43 ` Morten Brørup
2023-11-07 17:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-06 19:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-06 19:34 ` [PATCH v2] " Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-08 17:47 ` [PATCH v3 ] " Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-09 7:21 ` Morten Brørup
2023-11-12 14:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
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