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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>,
	Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] app/testpmd: add GPU memory option for mbuf pools
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:48:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20243569-b7f0-53c5-02c5-ba29734e30c2@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBAE1MauW7yrMsRgOdRRXkx4kMrEGqqtW+czoGndTajQDPfwA@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/17/2021 11:31 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 4:56 PM Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 4:38 PM Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com> wrote:
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>>>>> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
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>>>>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:04:59 +0000
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>>>>> <eagostini@nvidia.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> From: Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
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>>>>>> This patch introduces GPU memory in testpmd through the gpudev library.
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>>>>>> Testpmd can be used for network benchmarks when using GPU memory
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>>>>>> instead of regular CPU memory to send and receive packets.
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>>>>>> This option is currently limited to iofwd engine to ensure
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>>>>>> no workload is applied on packets not accessible from the CPU.
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>>>>>> The options chose is --mbuf-size so buffer split feature across
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>>>>>> different mempools can be enabled.
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>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
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>>>>> Won't this create a hard dependency of test-pmd on gpudev?
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>>>>> I thought gpudev was supposed to be optional
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>>>> Sure, let me submit another patch to make it optional
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>>> Why to add yet another compile time macro everywhere in testpmd and
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>>> make hard to maintain?
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>>> Adding iofwd kind of code is very simple to add test/test-gpudev and
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>>> all GPU specific options
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>>> can be added in test-gpudev. It also helps to review the patches as
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>>> test cases focus on
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>>> each device class.
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>> Test-gpudev is standalone unit test to ensure gpudev functions work correctly.
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>> In testpmd instead, there is a connection between gpudev and the network.
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> I understand that. We had the same case with eventdev, where it needs to
> work with network. Testpmd is already complicated, IMO, we should
> focus only ethdev
> test cases on testpmd, test-gpudev can use ethdev API to enable
> networking requirements for gpudev.
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+1



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-17 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-29 20:49 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: add GPU memory option in iofwd engine eagostini
2021-11-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " eagostini
2021-11-11 21:41   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " eagostini
2021-11-16 16:28     ` Slava Ovsiienko
2021-11-16 17:16       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-11-16 18:15         ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-16 17:55     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-16 18:06       ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-16 18:11         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-16 19:09           ` Jerin Jacob
2021-11-16 19:14             ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-16 19:21               ` Jerin Jacob
2021-11-17  8:55                 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-11-17  3:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] app/testpmd: add GPU memory option for mbuf pools eagostini
2021-11-17  3:04   ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " eagostini
2021-11-16 21:34     ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-11-17 11:08       ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-17 11:23         ` Jerin Jacob
2021-11-17 11:26           ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-17 11:31             ` Jerin Jacob
2021-11-17 11:48               ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2021-11-17 12:36                 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-11-17 12:39                   ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-17 13:39                     ` Jerin Jacob
2021-11-17 13:50                       ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-17 14:02                         ` Jerin Jacob
2021-11-17 14:07                           ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-17 17:44                             ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-17 21:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/1] " eagostini
2021-11-17 21:49   ` [PATCH v4 1/1] " eagostini
2021-11-17 14:04     ` Bruce Richardson

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