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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev@nvidia.com>,
	Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	zhaoyan.chen@intel.com,
	Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
	"Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	ajitkhaparde@gmail.com, dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>,
	Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4] mbuf: fix reset on mbuf free
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:54:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2065212.rItNS1eAF1@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35C61945@smartserver.smartshare.dk>

30/07/2021 16:35, Morten Brørup:
> > From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com]
> > Sent: Friday, 30 July 2021 14.37
> > 
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:47:34AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > What's the follow-up for this patch?
> > 
> > Unfortunatly, I still don't have the time to work on this topic yet.
> > 
> > In my initial tests, in our lab, I didn't notice any performance
> > regression, but Ali has seen an impact (0.5M PPS, but I don't know how
> > much in percent).
> > 
> > 
> > > 19/01/2021 15:04, Slava Ovsiienko:
> > > > Hi, All
> > > >
> > > > Could we postpose this patch at least to rc2? We would like to
> > conduct more investigations?
> > > >
> > > > With best regards, Slava
> > > >
> > > > From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> > > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 05:52:32PM +0000, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > (Sorry had to resend this to some recipients due to mail server
> > problems).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just confirming that I can still reproduce the regression with
> > single core and
> > > > > 64B frames on other servers.
> > > > >
> > > > > Many thanks for the feedback. Can you please detail what is the
> > amount of
> > > > > performance loss in percent, and confirm the test case? (I
> > suppose it is
> > > > > testpmd io forward).
> > > > >
> > > > > Unfortunatly, I won't be able to spend a lot of time on this soon
> > (sorry for
> > > > > that). So I see at least these 2 options:
> > > > >
> > > > > - postpone the patch again, until I can find more time to analyze
> > > > >   and optimize
> > > > > - apply the patch if the performance loss is acceptable compared
> > to
> > > > >   the added value of fixing a bug
> > > > >
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Statu quo...
> > 
> > Olivier
> > 
> 
> The decision should be simple:
> 
> Does the DPDK project support segmented packets?
> If yes, then apply the patch to fix the bug!
> 
> If anyone seriously cares about the regression it introduces, optimization patches are welcome later. We shouldn't wait for it.

You're right, but the regression is flagged to a 4-years old patch,
that's why I don't consider it as urgent.

> If the patch is not applied, the documentation must be updated to mention that we are releasing DPDK with a known bug: that segmented packets are handled incorrectly in the scenario described in this patch.

Yes, would be good to document the known issue,
no matter how old it is.

> Generally, there could be some performance to gain by not supporting segmented packets at all, as a compile time option. But that is a different discussion.
> 
> 
> -Morten




  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-30 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-04 17:00 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Olivier Matz
2020-11-05  0:15 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05  7:46   ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05  8:26     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-11-05  9:10       ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 11:34         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05 12:31           ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 13:14             ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05 13:24               ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 13:55                 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05 16:30                   ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-05 23:55                     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-06  7:52                       ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-06  8:20                         ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-06  8:50                           ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-06 10:04                             ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-06 10:07                               ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-06 11:53                                 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-06 12:23                                   ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-08 14:16                                     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-11-08 14:19                                       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-10 16:26                                         ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05  8:33     ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-05  9:03       ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05  9:09     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-11-08  7:25 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-12-18 12:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Olivier Matz
2020-12-18 13:18   ` Morten Brørup
2020-12-18 23:33     ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-01-06 13:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Olivier Matz
2021-01-10  9:28   ` Ali Alnubani
2021-01-11 13:14   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-01-13 13:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Olivier Matz
2021-01-15 13:59   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " David Marchand
2021-01-15 18:39     ` Ali Alnubani
2021-01-18 17:52       ` Ali Alnubani
2021-01-19  8:32         ` Olivier Matz
2021-01-19  8:53           ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-19 12:00             ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-19 12:27               ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-19 14:03                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-19 14:21                   ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-21  9:15                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-19 14:04           ` Slava Ovsiienko
2021-07-24  8:47             ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 12:36               ` Olivier Matz
2021-07-30 14:35                 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-30 14:54                   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-07-30 15:14                     ` Olivier Matz
2021-07-30 15:23                       ` Morten Brørup
2021-08-04 13:29                       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add known issue with mbuf segment Thomas Monjalon
2021-08-04 14:25                         ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-08-05  6:08                         ` Morten Brørup
2021-08-06 14:21                           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-08-06 14:24                             ` Morten Brørup
2021-09-28  8:28                     ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4] mbuf: fix reset on mbuf free Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-28  9:00                       ` Slava Ovsiienko
2021-09-28  9:25                         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-09-28  9:39                         ` Morten Brørup
2021-09-29  8:03                           ` Ali Alnubani
2021-09-29 21:39                             ` Olivier Matz
2021-09-30 13:29                               ` Ali Alnubani
2021-10-21  8:26                                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-21  9:19       ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-21  9:29         ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-21 16:35           ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdklab] " Lincoln Lavoie
2021-01-23  8:57             ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-25 17:00               ` Brandon Lo
2021-01-25 18:42             ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-06-15 13:56   ` [dpdk-dev] " Morten Brørup
2021-09-29 21:37   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Olivier Matz
2021-09-30 13:27     ` Ali Alnubani
2021-10-21  9:18     ` David Marchand
2022-07-28 14:06       ` CI performance test results might be misleading Morten Brørup

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