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From: Antti Kantee <pooka@fixup.fi>
To: "Kavanagh, Mark B" <mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com>,
	 "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Performance - linking against DPDK shared vs static libraries
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:37:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53CFE4C6.7080506@fixup.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC5AD7FA266D86499789B1BCAEC715F846BA3C50@IRSMSX105.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 23/07/14 15:58, Kavanagh, Mark B wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I build a switching application, which links against DPDK shared libraries; when I run the application, I see throughput of X.  I then build the application again, except this time I link against DPDK shared libraries, having modified the application's build parameters appropriately.  In this case, I see a performance drop of around .04%, which given the high throughput of the application is significant.
>
> Is such performance degradation to be expected when using DPDK shared libraries, and if not, are there any best-known methods for preventing performance degradation, assuming that I may be constrained to using shared libraries going forward?

Do you mean .04% or 4%?  I would be more inclined to believe the latter. 
  Shared libraries are inherently slower due to indirection from PIC, 
and being required to use them seems like a silly constraint in the 
context of high-performance computing.

   - antti

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-23 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-23 15:58 Kavanagh, Mark B
2014-07-23 16:37 ` Antti Kantee [this message]
2014-07-23 21:43   ` Kavanagh, Mark B
2014-07-23 21:56     ` Matthew Hall
2014-07-24 14:02       ` Kavanagh, Mark B
2014-07-23 18:08 ` Stephen Hemminger

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