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From: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>,
	Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>, Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>,
	NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	 Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev@nvidia.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/2] net/mlx5: optimize inline mbuf freeing
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:14:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR12MB3753A064D4C99C24EB4785B9DFBA9@DM6PR12MB3753.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de505791-707b-d6c8-67d7-dc080a6381fa@intel.com>

Hi, Ferruh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 14:45
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas
> Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Alexander Kozyrev
> <akozyrev@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/2] net/mlx5: optimize inline mbuf
> freeing
> 
> On 1/22/2021 5:12 PM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko wrote:
> > The mlx5 PMD supports packet data inlining by pushing data to the
> > transmit descriptor. If packet is short enough and all data are
> > inline, the mbuf is not needed for data send anymore and can be freed.
> >
> > The mbuf free was performed in the most inner loop building the
> > transmit descriptors. This patch postpones the mbuf free transaction
> > to the tx_burst routine exit, optimizing the loop and allowing the
> > bulk freeing for the multiple mbufs in single pool API call.
> >
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> 
> Hi Slava,
> 
> This patch is optimization for inline mbufs, right, it is not a fix, should it be
> backported?
Not critical, but nice to have this small optimization in LTS.

> 
> cc'ed LTS maintainers.
> 
> I am dropping the stable to for now in the next-net, can add it later based on
> discussion result.

OK, let's consider this backporting in dedicated way, thank you.

With best regards, Slava

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-28  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1608311697-31529-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
2020-12-18 17:14 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH " Viacheslav Ovsiienko
     [not found] ` <1609922063-13716-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
2021-01-06  8:34   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 " Viacheslav Ovsiienko
     [not found] ` <1611335529-26503-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
2021-01-22 17:12   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 " Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2021-01-27 12:44     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-27 12:48       ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-28  9:14       ` Slava Ovsiienko [this message]
2021-01-28  9:34         ` [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon

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