From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Cc: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] app/testpmd: add option ring-bind-lcpu to bind Q with CPU
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:17:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180117091337.GA30690@simonLocalRHEL7.x64> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB9772588627E492@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com>
Hi, Konstantin,
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:38:35PM +0000, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of wei.guo.simon@gmail.com
> > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 2:35 AM
> > To: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] app/testpmd: add option ring-bind-lcpu to bind Q with CPU
> >
> > From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
> >
> > Currently the rx/tx queue is allocated from the buffer pool on socket of:
> > - port's socket if --port-numa-config specified
> > - or ring-numa-config setting per port
> >
> > All the above will "bind" queue to single socket per port configuration.
> > But it can actually archieve better performance if one port's queue can
> > be spread across multiple NUMA nodes, and the rx/tx queue is allocated
> > per lcpu socket.
> >
> > This patch adds a new option "--ring-bind-lcpu"(no parameter). With
> > this, testpmd can utilize the PCI-e bus bandwidth on another NUMA
> > nodes.
> >
> > When --port-numa-config or --ring-numa-config option is specified, this
> > --ring-bind-lcpu option will be suppressed.
>
> Instead of introducing one more option - wouldn't it be better to
> allow user manually to define flows and assign them to particular lcores?
> Then the user will be able to create any FWD configuration he/she likes.
> Something like:
> lcore X add flow rxq N,Y txq M,Z
>
> Which would mean - on lcore X recv packets from port=N, rx_queue=Y,
> and send them through port=M,tx_queue=Z.
Thanks for the comment.
Will it be a too compliated solution for user since it will need to define
specifically for each lcore? We might have hundreds of lcores in current
modern platforms.
Thanks,
- Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 7:59 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " wei.guo.simon
2018-01-14 23:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-16 2:12 ` Simon Guo
2018-01-15 8:31 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2018-01-13 2:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " wei.guo.simon
2018-01-16 2:54 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2018-01-16 12:38 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-18 2:17 ` Simon Guo [this message]
2018-01-18 12:14 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-25 3:40 ` Simon Guo
2019-04-05 15:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-05 15:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-16 2:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Simon Guo
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