From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>,
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
"Viacheslav Ovsiienko" <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
"Andrew Rybchenko" <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: make rte flow API thread safe
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 07:52:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200908075208.048bfa02@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MN2PR12MB3550EEEB531A0CFCB5EE7293C1280@MN2PR12MB3550.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 02:36:48 +0000
Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for my late reply due to the vacation.
>
> > What is the performance impact of this for currently working applications that
> > use a single thread to program flow rules. You are adding a couple of system
> > calls to what was formerly a totally usermode operation.
>
Read the source for glibc and see what pthread_mutex does
> If I understand correctly, in the non-contended single thread case, pthread mutex lock should not go to the kernel space.
> I also wrote a small application with pthread mutex, and strace shows no system call was introduced.
>
> Another simple testing code below is to check the cycles cost difference in every round between pthread mutex and spin_lock.
>
Micro benchmarks of locking is hard to see.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-03 4:53 Suanming Mou
2020-09-03 17:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-07 2:36 ` Suanming Mou
2020-09-08 14:52 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-09-08 15:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-08 16:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-09 2:26 ` Suanming Mou
2020-09-24 1:42 ` Suanming Mou
2020-09-09 1:26 ` Suanming Mou
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