From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from foss.arm.com (usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com [217.140.101.70]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9A52BD5; Fri, 8 Mar 2019 08:37:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A653C15BE; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 23:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from net-arm-thunderx2.shanghai.arm.com (net-arm-thunderx2.shanghai.arm.com [10.169.40.121]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CFB9B3F71D; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 23:37:47 -0800 (PST) From: Gavin Hu To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: nd@arm.com, thomas@monjalon.net, jerinj@marvell.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, nipun.gupta@nxp.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, gavin.hu@arm.com, i.maximets@samsung.com, chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, stable@dpdk.org Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 15:37:29 +0800 Message-Id: <1552030651-145319-2-git-send-email-gavin.hu@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1552030651-145319-1-git-send-email-gavin.hu@arm.com> References: <1552030651-145319-1-git-send-email-gavin.hu@arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20181220104246.5590-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> References: <20181220104246.5590-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/3] test/spinlock: remove 1us delay for correct benchmarking X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:37:50 -0000 The test is to benchmark the performance of spinlock by counting the number of spinlock acquire and release operations within the specified time. A typical pair of lock and unlock operations costs tens or hundreds of nano seconds, in comparison to this, delaying 1 us outside of the locked region is too much, compromising the goal of benchmarking the lock and unlock performance. Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release") Cc: stable@dpdk.org Change-Id: I7cc025e76082bb84de3d7cd5002e850f89b30eae Jira: ENTNET-1047 Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang Reviewed-by: Joyce Kong Reviewed-by: Phil Yang Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl Acked-by: Jerin Jacob --- app/test/test_spinlock.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/app/test/test_spinlock.c b/app/test/test_spinlock.c index 73bff12..6795195 100644 --- a/app/test/test_spinlock.c +++ b/app/test/test_spinlock.c @@ -120,8 +120,6 @@ load_loop_fn(void *func_param) lcount++; if (use_lock) rte_spinlock_unlock(&lk); - /* delay to make lock duty cycle slighlty realistic */ - rte_delay_us(1); time_diff = rte_get_timer_cycles() - begin; } lock_count[lcore] = lcount; -- 2.7.4