From: "Zhang, Qi Z" <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Karlsson, Magnus" <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>,
"Topel, Bjorn" <bjorn.topel@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/7] PMD driver for AF_XDP
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 04:05:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <039ED4275CED7440929022BC67E706115315D9BA@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23b8bd50-cf2a-fce1-dc0a-20a52d33cf77@redhat.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Wang [mailto:jasowang@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 9:18 PM
> To: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
> Cc: Karlsson, Magnus <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>; Topel, Bjorn
> <bjorn.topel@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/7] PMD driver for AF_XDP
>
>
>
> On 2018年03月01日 20:56, Zhang, Qi Z wrote:
> >>>>>> BTW, performance test shows our PMD can reach 94%~98% of the
> >>>>>> orignal benchmark when share memory is enabled.
> >>>>> Hi:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Looks like zero copy is not used in this series. Any plan to support
> that?
> >>>> Zero copy is enabled in patch 5, if a mempool passed check_mempool,
> >>>> it will be registered to af_xdp socket.
> >>>> so there will be no memcpy between mbuf and af_xdp.
> >> Aha, I see. So the zerocopy was limited to some specific use case.
> >> And if I understand it correctly, zc mode could not be used for VM.
> > I think except the limitation for mempool layout, zerocopy is transparent
> to DPDK application, only difference is performance.
> > Sorry, I may not get your point, if you could explain more about the VM
> usage.
> >
> > Regards
> > Qi
>
> No problem, so the question is:
>
> Can zerocopy be used when using testpmd to foward packets between
> vhost-user and AF_XDP socket?
I'm not very familiar with vhost-user, but I guess the answer should be same as the case for forward packet between vhost-user and i40e,
(if vhost-user does not have any special requirement for mempool that conflict with af_xdp ZC's requirement)
Regards
Qi
>
> Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-02 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-27 9:32 Qi Zhang
2018-02-27 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/7] net/af_xdp: new PMD driver Qi Zhang
2018-02-28 23:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-28 23:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-01 1:51 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-02-28 23:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-28 23:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-01 1:59 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-02-27 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/7] lib/mbuf: enable parse flags when create mempool Qi Zhang
2018-02-27 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/7] lib/mempool: allow page size aligned mempool Qi Zhang
2018-02-27 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 4/7] net/af_xdp: use mbuf mempool for buffer management Qi Zhang
2018-03-01 2:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-27 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 5/7] net/af_xdp: enable share mempool Qi Zhang
2018-02-27 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 6/7] net/af_xdp: load BPF file Qi Zhang
2018-03-01 2:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-27 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 7/7] app/testpmd: enable parameter for mempool flags Qi Zhang
2018-03-01 2:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/7] PMD driver for AF_XDP Jason Wang
2018-03-01 4:18 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-03-01 4:20 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-03-01 7:46 ` Jason Wang
2018-03-01 12:56 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-03-01 13:18 ` Jason Wang
2018-03-02 4:05 ` Zhang, Qi Z [this message]
2018-02-27 9:35 Qi Zhang
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