From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 RESEND] eal: add tsc_hz to rte_mem_config
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:23:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8xJRTrKvuZ5fX3upPfyFdrHfCyH_KO40nF6g=G8=0Ttrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191008083833.GB1856@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:39 AM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 08:28:21AM -0700, Jim Harris wrote:
> > This ensures secondary processes never have to
> > calculate the TSC rate themselves, which can be
> > noticeable in VMs that don't have access to
> > arch-specific detection mechanism (such as
> > CPUID leaf 0x15 or MSR 0xCE on x86).
> >
> > Since rte_mem_config is now internal to the rte_eal
> > library, we can add tsc_hz without ABI breakage
> > concerns.
> >
> > Reduces rte_eal_init() execution time in a secondary
> > process from 165ms to 66ms on my test system.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
> > ---
> This seems a good idea to me.
>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
I wonder if we can get rid of eal_tsc_resolution_hz and just rely on
the shared memory to get/store this info.
Feel free to look at this later and send a followup patch :-).
Applied, thanks.
--
David Marchand
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-22 8:42 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] timer: use rte_mp_msg to get freq from primary process Jim Harris
2019-08-26 13:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: use memzone to share tsc hz with secondary processes Jim Harris
2019-08-26 13:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Jim Harris
2019-08-27 8:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-08-27 12:04 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-27 12:48 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-08-28 9:01 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-27 14:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-08-27 16:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] eal: add tsc_hz to rte_mem_config Jim Harris
2019-10-07 15:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 RESEND] " Jim Harris
2019-10-08 8:38 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-10-21 8:23 ` David Marchand [this message]
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