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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com,
	bruce.richardson@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mempool: replace c memcpy code semantics with optimized rte_memcpy
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 09:36:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <574FE202.2060306@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160601070018.GA26922@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Jerin,

On 06/01/2016 09:00 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:05:30PM +0200, Olivier MATZ wrote:
>> Today, the objects pointers are reversed only in the get(). It means
>> that this code:
>>
>> 	rte_mempool_get_bulk(mp, table, 4);
>> 	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
>> 		printf("obj = %p\n", t[i]);
>> 	rte_mempool_put_bulk(mp, table, 4);
>>
>>
>> 	printf("-----\n");
>> 	rte_mempool_get_bulk(mp, table, 4);
>> 	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
>> 		printf("obj = %p\n", t[i]);
>> 	rte_mempool_put_bulk(mp, table, 4);
>>
>> prints:
>>
>> 	addr1
>> 	addr2
>> 	addr3
>> 	addr4
>> 	-----
>> 	addr4
>> 	addr3
>> 	addr2
>> 	addr1
>>
>> Which is quite strange.
> 
> IMO, It is the expected LIFO behavior. Right ?
> 
> What is not expected is the following, which is the case after change. Or Am I
> missing something here?
> 
> addr1
> addr2
> addr3
> addr4
> -----
> addr1
> addr2
> addr3
> addr4
> 
>>
>> I don't think it would be an issue to replace the loop by a
>> rte_memcpy(), it may increase the copy speed and it will be
>> more coherent with the put().
>>

I think the LIFO behavior should occur on a per-bulk basis. I mean,
it should behave like in the exemplaes below:

  // pool cache is in state X
  obj1 = mempool_get(mp)
  obj2 = mempool_get(mp)
  mempool_put(mp, obj2)
  mempool_put(mp, obj1)
  // pool cache is back in state X

  // pool cache is in state X
  bulk1 = mempool_get_bulk(mp, 16)
  bulk2 = mempool_get_bulk(mp, 16)
  mempool_put_bulk(mp, bulk2, 16)
  mempool_put_bulk(mp, bulk1, 16)
  // pool cache is back in state X

Note that today it's not the case for bulks, since object addresses
are reversed only in get(), we are not back in the original state.
I don't really see the advantage of this.

Removing the reversing may accelerate the cache in case of bulk get,
I think.

Regards,
Olivier

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-24 14:50 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: " Jerin Jacob
2016-05-24 14:59 ` Olivier Matz
2016-05-24 15:17   ` Jerin Jacob
2016-05-27 10:24     ` Hunt, David
2016-05-27 11:42       ` Jerin Jacob
2016-05-27 15:05         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-30  8:44           ` Olivier Matz
2016-05-27 13:45       ` Hunt, David
2016-06-24 15:56     ` Hunt, David
2016-06-24 16:02       ` Olivier Matz
2016-05-26  8:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mempool: " Jerin Jacob
2016-05-30  8:45   ` Olivier Matz
2016-05-31 12:58     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-05-31 21:05       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-06-01  7:00         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-02  7:36           ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2016-06-02  9:39             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-02 21:16               ` Olivier MATZ
2016-06-03  7:02                 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-17 10:40                   ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-24 16:04                     ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-30  9:41   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-30 11:38     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-30 12:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Jerin Jacob
2016-06-30 17:28     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-05  8:43       ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-05 11:32         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-05 13:13           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-05 13:42             ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-05 14:09             ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-06 16:21               ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-07 13:51                 ` Ferruh Yigit

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