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From: Dmitry Vyal <dmitryvyal@gmail.com>
To: Robert Sanford <rsanford@prolexic.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] How to fight forwarding performance regression on large mempool sizes.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:48:03 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <523BEFA3.4070209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFmpvUNzbi7zsAOHeaR5KpX_OBpa_g-TLDr5FYmddqGGAX9pSA@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/19/2013 11:39 PM, Robert Sanford wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> The biggest drop-off seems to be from size 128K to 256K. Are you using 
> 1GB huge pages already (rather than 2MB)?
>
> I would think that it would not use over 1GB until you ask for 512K 
> mbufs or more.
>

Hi Robert,

Yes, I've been using 1GB pages for a while. My L3 cache is 20MB and 
mbufs are 2240 bytes of size. So something strange indeed happens then 
we move from ~200MB to ~400MB. Any ideas?

Regards,
Dmitry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-20  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-19  7:50 Dmitry Vyal
2013-09-19 19:39 ` Robert Sanford
2013-09-19 19:43   ` Venkatesan, Venky
2013-09-20  6:50     ` Dmitry Vyal
2013-09-20  6:48   ` Dmitry Vyal [this message]
2013-09-20 14:41     ` Robert Sanford
2013-09-20 15:34     ` Robert Sanford
2013-09-22 19:03       ` Dmitry Vyal

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