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From: "Carrillo, Erik G" <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>
To: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>,
	"jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com" <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: "pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com"
	<pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>,
	"rsanford@akamai.com" <rsanford@akamai.com>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] eventdev: add new software event timer adapter
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:17:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BE54F058557D9A4FAC1D84E2FC6D875723361D8F@fmsmsx115.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b450dc9b-4e02-932f-dd83-4cae394cb66d@ericsson.com>

Hi Mattias,

Thanks for the review.  Responses in-line:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattias Rönnblom [mailto:mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2018 1:17 PM
> To: Carrillo, Erik G <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>;
> jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com
> Cc: pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com; rsanford@akamai.com;
> stephen@networkplumber.org; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] eventdev: add new software event
> timer adapter
> 
> On 2018-12-07 21:34, Erik Gabriel Carrillo wrote:
> > This patch introduces a new version of the event timer adapter
> > software PMD. In the original design, timer event producer lcores in
> > the primary and secondary processes enqueued event timers into a ring,
> > and a service core in the primary process dequeued them and processed
> > them further.  To improve performance, this version does away with the
> > ring and lets lcores in both primary and secondary processes insert
> > timers directly into timer skiplist data structures; the service core
> > directly accesses the lists as well, when looking for timers that have
> expired.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>
> > ---
> >   lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_timer_adapter.c | 687 +++++++++++------
> ---------
> >   1 file changed, 275 insertions(+), 412 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_timer_adapter.c
> > b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_timer_adapter.c
> > index 79070d4..9c528cb 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_timer_adapter.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_event_timer_adapter.c
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> >   #include <inttypes.h>
> >   #include <stdbool.h>
> >   #include <sys/queue.h>
> > +#include <assert.h>
> >
> 
> You have no assert() calls, from what I can see. Include <rte_debug.h> for
> RTE_ASSERT().
> 

Indeed - looks like I can remove that.

<...snipped...>

> > +static void
> > +swtim_free_tim(struct rte_timer *tim, void *arg)
> >   {
> > -	int ret;
> > -	struct msg *m1, *m2;
> > -	struct rte_event_timer_adapter_sw_data *sw_data =
> > -						adapter->data-
> >adapter_priv;
> > +	struct swtim *sw = arg;
> >
> > -	rte_spinlock_lock(&sw_data->msgs_tailq_sl);
> > -
> > -	/* Cancel outstanding rte_timers and free msg objects */
> > -	m1 = TAILQ_FIRST(&sw_data->msgs_tailq_head);
> > -	while (m1 != NULL) {
> > -		EVTIM_LOG_DBG("freeing outstanding timer");
> > -		m2 = TAILQ_NEXT(m1, msgs);
> > -
> > -		rte_timer_stop_sync(&m1->tim);
> > -		rte_mempool_put(sw_data->msg_pool, m1);
> > +	rte_mempool_put(sw->tim_pool, (void *)tim); }
> 
> No cast required.
> 

Will update.

<...snipped...>

> > +static uint16_t
> > +__swtim_arm_burst(const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter,
> > +		struct rte_event_timer **evtims,
> > +		uint16_t nb_evtims)
> >   {
> > -	uint16_t i;
> > -	int ret;
> > -	struct rte_event_timer_adapter_sw_data *sw_data;
> > -	struct msg *msgs[nb_evtims];
> > +	int i, ret;
> > +	struct swtim *sw = swtim_pmd_priv(adapter);
> > +	uint32_t lcore_id = rte_lcore_id();
> > +	struct rte_timer *tim, *tims[nb_evtims];
> > +	uint64_t cycles;
> >
> >   #ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_EVENTDEV_DEBUG
> >   	/* Check that the service is running. */ @@ -1101,101 +978,104 @@
> > __sw_event_timer_arm_burst(const struct rte_event_timer_adapter
> *adapter,
> >   	}
> >   #endif
> >
> > -	sw_data = adapter->data->adapter_priv;
> > +	/* Adjust lcore_id if non-EAL thread. Arbitrarily pick the timer list of
> > +	 * the highest lcore to insert such timers into
> > +	 */
> > +	if (lcore_id == LCORE_ID_ANY)
> > +		lcore_id = RTE_MAX_LCORE - 1;
> > +
> > +	/* If this is the first time we're arming an event timer on this lcore,
> > +	 * mark this lcore as "in use"; this will cause the service
> > +	 * function to process the timer list that corresponds to this lcore.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (unlikely(rte_atomic16_test_and_set(&sw->in_use[lcore_id]))) {
> 
> I suspect we have a performance critical false sharing issue above.
> Many/all flags are going to be arranged on the same cache line.
> 

Good catch - thanks for spotting this.  I'll update the array layout.

Thanks,
Erik

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-10 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-29 23:35 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-11-29 23:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] timer: allow timer management in shared memory Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-11-29 23:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] timer: add function to stop all timers in a list Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-11-29 23:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] eventdev: add new software event timer adapter Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-11-30  7:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] " Pavan Nikhilesh
2018-11-30 19:07   ` Carrillo, Erik G
2018-12-07 17:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Timer library changes Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-07 17:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] timer: allow timer management in shared memory Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-07 18:10     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-12-07 19:21       ` Carrillo, Erik G
2018-12-07 17:53   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] timer: add function to stop all timers in a list Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-13 22:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Timer library changes Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-13 22:26     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] timer: allow timer management in shared memory Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-13 22:26     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] timer: add function to stop all timers in a list Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-19  3:35     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Timer library changes Thomas Monjalon
2018-12-19  7:33       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-03-05 22:41     ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-03-05 22:58       ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] " Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-06 18:54         ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-03-06 20:17           ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-06  2:39       ` [dpdk-dev] " Varghese, Vipin
2019-03-06 15:15         ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-03-07  2:33           ` Varghese, Vipin
2019-03-06 17:20     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-03-06 17:20       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] timer: allow timer management in shared memory Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-03-20 13:52         ` Sanford, Robert
2019-03-20 13:52           ` Sanford, Robert
2019-03-21  1:01           ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-03-21  1:01             ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-03-27 14:03             ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-27 14:03               ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-28 12:42               ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-03-28 12:42                 ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-04-15 21:49           ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-04-15 21:49             ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-03-06 17:20       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] timer: add function to stop all timers in a list Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-15 21:41       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/2] Timer library changes Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-15 21:41         ` Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-15 21:41         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] timer: allow timer management in shared memory Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-15 21:41           ` Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-17 17:09           ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-17 17:09             ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-15 21:41         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] timer: add function to stop all timers in a list Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-15 21:41           ` Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-17 19:54         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/2] Timer library changes Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-17 19:54           ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-12-07 20:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/1] New software event timer adapter Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-07 20:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] eventdev: add new " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-09 19:17     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2018-12-10 17:17       ` Carrillo, Erik G [this message]
2018-12-14 15:45   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/1] New " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-14 15:45     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/1] eventdev: add new " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-14 21:15       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2018-12-14 23:04         ` Carrillo, Erik G
2018-12-14 23:15     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/1] New " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-14 23:15       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/1] eventdev: add new " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2018-12-18 20:11       ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH v4 0/1] New " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2018-12-18 20:14         ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-04-22 14:57       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-22 14:57         ` Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-22 14:57         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/1] eventdev: add new " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-22 14:57           ` Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-26 15:14         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/1] New " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-26 15:14           ` Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-26 15:14           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/1] eventdev: add new " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-26 15:14             ` Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-04-26 18:51             ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-26 18:51               ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-26 18:58               ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-04-26 18:58                 ` Carrillo, Erik G
2019-06-05 13:34                 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-06-19 15:14           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/1] New " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-06-19 15:14             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/1] eventdev: add new " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-06-19 16:25               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/1] New " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-06-19 16:25                 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/1] eventdev: add new " Erik Gabriel Carrillo
2019-06-24  6:12                   ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-06-25  6:06                     ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran

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