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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Remove IPC threads
@ 2018-06-15 14:25 Anatoly Burakov
  2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] eal/linux: use glibc malloc in alarm Anatoly Burakov
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  0 siblings, 18 replies; 25+ messages in thread
From: Anatoly Burakov @ 2018-06-15 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: konstantin.ananyev, thomas, bruce.richardson

As previously discussed [1], IPC threads need to be removed and their
workload moved to interrupt thread.

FreeBSD did not have an interrupt thread, nor did it support alarm
API. This patchset adds support for both on FreeBSD. FreeBSD interrupt
thread is based on kevent, FreeBSD's native event multiplexing
mechanism similar to Linux's epoll.

The patchset makes FreeBSD's interrupts and alarm work just enough to
suffice for purposes of IPC, however there are really weird problems
observed. Specifically, FreeBSD's kevent timers are really slow to
trigger for some reason, sleeping on a 10ms timer as much as 200ms
before waking up. Interrupt handling on fd's is also a bit flaky.

It has also been observed that both problems go away if we do not
affinitize master lcore (by commenting relevant code out [2]). It is
not known why these problems are observed, nor it is clear what a
solution might entail.

For the purposes of making IPC work and having rudimentary support
for alarm and interrupt API's, this patchset works fine. However,
because of the above described issues, documentation will not be
updated to indicate support for interrupts on FreeBSD at this time.

[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/36579/
[2] http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c#n729

Anatoly Burakov (4):
  ipc: remove IPC thread for async requests
  eal/bsdapp: add interrupt thread
  eal/bsdapp: add alarm support
  ipc: remove main IPC thread

Jianfeng Tan (4):
  eal/linux: use glibc malloc in alarm
  eal/linux: use glibc malloc in interrupt handling
  eal: bring forward init of interrupt handling
  eal: add IPC type for interrupt thread

 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c               |  10 +-
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_alarm.c         | 299 +++++++++++-
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_alarm_private.h |  19 +
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c    | 460 +++++++++++++++++-
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c       | 243 ++++-----
 .../common/include/rte_eal_interrupts.h       |   1 +
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c             |  10 +-
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_alarm.c       |   9 +-
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c  |  19 +-
 test/test/test_interrupts.c                   |  29 +-
 10 files changed, 899 insertions(+), 200 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_alarm_private.h

-- 
2.17.1

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2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/8] eal/linux: use glibc malloc in interrupt handling Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/8] ipc: remove IPC thread for async requests Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/8] eal: bring forward init of interrupt handling Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/8] eal: add IPC type for interrupt thread Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/8] eal/bsdapp: add " Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/8] eal/bsdapp: add alarm support Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-15 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] ipc: remove main IPC thread Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-26  1:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Remove IPC threads Zhang, Qi Z
2018-06-26  7:03 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] Remove asynchronous IPC thread Anatoly Burakov
2018-07-13 10:44   ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] eal/linux: use glibc malloc in alarm Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/7] eal/linux: use glibc malloc in interrupt handling Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/7] eal/bsdapp: add interrupt thread Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] eal/bsdapp: add alarm support Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] eal: bring forward init of interrupt handling Anatoly Burakov
2018-07-12 22:36   ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-07-13  7:41     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-07-13  8:09     ` David Marchand
2018-07-13  9:10       ` Tiwei Bie
2018-07-13 11:28         ` David Marchand
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] ipc: remove IPC thread for async requests Anatoly Burakov
2018-06-26 10:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] doc: document IPC callback limitations Anatoly Burakov

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