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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Rahul Bhansali <rbhansali@marvell.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>,
	Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>,
	Anoob Joseph <anoobj@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] examples/ipsec-secgw: fix IPsec performance drop
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 18:25:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4199729-3071-4e64-a36c-4cc9fd8becaf@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240206123811.3452587-1-rbhansali@marvell.com>

On 2/6/2024 12:38 PM, Rahul Bhansali wrote:
> Single packet free using rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk() is dropping the
> performance. On cn10k, maximum of ~4% drop observed for IPsec
> event mode single SA outbound case.
> 
> To fix this issue, single packet free will use rte_pktmbuf_free
> API.
> 
> Fixes: bd7c063561b3 ("examples/ipsec-secgw: use bulk free")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Bhansali <rbhansali@marvell.com>
> ---
>  examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.h | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.h b/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.h
> index 8baab44ee7..ec33a982df 100644
> --- a/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.h
> +++ b/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.h
> @@ -229,11 +229,10 @@ free_reassembly_fail_pkt(struct rte_mbuf *mb)
>  }
>  
>  /* helper routine to free bulk of packets */
> -static inline void
> -free_pkts(struct rte_mbuf *mb[], uint32_t n)
> +static __rte_always_inline void
> +free_pkts(struct rte_mbuf *mb[], const uint32_t n)
>  {
> -	rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk(mb, n);
> -
> +	n == 1 ? rte_pktmbuf_free(mb[0]) : rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk(mb, n);
>  	core_stats_update_drop(n);
>  }
>  

Hi Rahul,

Do you think the 'rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk()' API performance can be
improved by similar change?

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-06 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-06 12:38 Rahul Bhansali
2024-02-06 18:25 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2024-02-07  6:46   ` [EXT] " Rahul Bhansali
2024-02-07 10:35     ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-02-09 13:10       ` Rahul Bhansali
2024-02-09 13:51         ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-02-13 12:50           ` Rahul Bhansali
2024-02-29 17:06             ` Akhil Goyal

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