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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: nd@arm.com, thomas@monjalon.net, bruce.richardson@intel.com,
	yong.liu@intel.com, yinan.wang@intel.com,
	ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, somnath.kotur@broadcom.com,
	Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, ruifeng.wang@arm.com,
	steve.capper@arm.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] fix and optimize barriers usage with some PMDs
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 18:41:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e316ae0-fba2-8faa-b84b-53a823c66232@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1568633238-47888-1-git-send-email-gavin.hu@arm.com>

On 9/16/2019 12:27 PM, Gavin Hu wrote:
> DPDK has well-defined barriers, such as CIO barriers and IO barriers.
> 
> X86, as a strong ordering model, implements the barriers as compiler
> barriers, but on aarch64, as a weak memory ordering model, has fine
> grained barriers. Using correct while as relaxed as possible barriers
> makes a perf difference.
> 
> Upon investigation on a batch of PMDs and it was found that the barriers
> are not always used correctly or relaxedly enough. 
> 
> This series of patches is to optimize the barrier usage with some selected
> PMDs and aim at best performance on all arches/platforms. 
> 
> More PMDs may come next to this series but it takes time.
> 
> Gavin Hu (5):
>   net/i40e: use relaxed and remove duplicate barrier
>   net/ice: use relaxed and remove duplicate barrier
>   net/bnxt: remove duplicate barrier
>   net/bnxt: replace with cio barrier for doorbell resp
>   net/bnxt: enforce io barrier for doorbell command

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-02 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-06  6:37 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/bnxt: fix memory barriers Gavin Hu
2019-09-16 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] fix and optimize barriers usage with some PMDs Gavin Hu
2019-10-02 17:41   ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2019-09-16 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] net/i40e: use relaxed and remove duplicate barrier Gavin Hu
2019-09-17  1:53   ` Zhang, Qi Z
2019-09-17  2:07     ` Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
2019-09-17  3:23       ` Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
2019-09-17  5:13         ` Zhang, Qi Z
2019-09-16 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] net/ice: " Gavin Hu
2019-09-17  1:51   ` Zhang, Qi Z
2019-09-16 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] net/bnxt: " Gavin Hu
2019-09-17  1:55   ` Ajit Khaparde
2019-09-16 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] net/bnxt: replace with cio barrier for doorbell resp Gavin Hu
2019-09-17  1:56   ` Ajit Khaparde
2019-09-16 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] net/bnxt: enforce io barrier for doorbell command Gavin Hu
2019-09-17  1:55   ` Ajit Khaparde

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