From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/13] mbuf: reorder fields by time of use
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:17:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540D8222.3050800@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409759378-10113-3-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Hi Bruce,
On 09/03/2014 05:49 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> * Reorder the fields in the mbuf so that we have fields that are used$
> together side-by-side in the structure. This means that we have a$
> contiguous block of 8-bytes in the mbuf which are used to reset an mbuf$
> of descriptor rearm, and a block of 16-bytes of data (excluding flags)
> which are set on RX from the received packet descriptor.
Some unwanted $ characters here.
> * Use dummy fields as appropraite to ensure alignment or to reserve gaps
> for later field additions.
s/appropraite/appropriate
> * Place most items which are not used by fast-path RX separately at the end
> of the structure so they can later be moved to a separate cache line.
> [The l2/l3 length fields are not moved at this stage as doing so will
> cause overflow to the next cache line].
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-03 15:49 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/13] Mbuf Structure Rework, part 2 Bruce Richardson
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/13] mbuf: replace data pointer by an offset Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 9:52 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-08 9:55 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/13] mbuf: reorder fields by time of use Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 10:17 ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/13] mbuf: add packet_type field Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 10:17 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-08 10:33 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2014-09-08 11:17 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-09 3:59 ` Zhang, Helin
[not found] ` <540EB428.9060706@6wind.com>
2014-09-09 8:45 ` Zhang, Helin
2014-09-09 9:47 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-09-09 15:05 ` Jim Thompson
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/13] mbuf: expand ol_flags field to 64-bits Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 10:25 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-09 9:00 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/13] mbuf: introduce a flag to indicate a control mbuf Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 11:53 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/13] mbuf: minor changes for readability Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 12:03 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/13] mbuf: use macros only to access the mbuf metadata Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 12:05 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-09 9:01 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-09-12 16:56 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2014-09-12 21:02 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-16 20:07 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2014-09-16 22:06 ` Ramia, Kannan Babu
2014-09-17 10:31 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-09-17 14:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-09-10 15:09 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-09-10 15:31 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/13] mbuf: add named points inside the mbuf structure Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 12:08 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/13] ixgbe: rework vector pmd following mbuf changes Bruce Richardson
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/13] mbuf: split mbuf across two cache lines Bruce Richardson
2014-09-08 12:10 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/13] mbuf: move l2_len and l3_len to second cache line Bruce Richardson
2014-09-04 5:08 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2014-09-04 10:27 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-09-04 11:00 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2014-09-04 11:55 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/13] ixgbe: Fix perf regression due to moved pool ptr Bruce Richardson
2014-09-03 15:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 13/13] ixgbe: Improve slow-path perf: vector scattered RX Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/13] Mbuf Structure Rework, part 2 Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/13] mbuf: replace data pointer by an offset Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/13] mbuf: reorder fields by time of use Bruce Richardson
2014-09-15 7:11 ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-09-15 8:19 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/13] mbuf: expand ol_flags field to 64-bits Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/13] mbuf: introduce a flag to indicate a control mbuf Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/13] mbuf: minor changes for readability Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/13] mbuf: use macros only to access the mbuf metadata Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/13] mbuf: move metadata macros to rte_port library Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/13] mbuf: add named points inside the mbuf structure Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/13] ixgbe: rework vector pmd following mbuf changes Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/13] mbuf: split mbuf across two cache lines Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/13] mbuf: move l2_len and l3_len to second cache line Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/13] ixgbe: Fix perf regression due to moved pool ptr Bruce Richardson
2014-09-15 16:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Bruce Richardson
2014-09-11 13:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 13/13] ixgbe: Improve slow-path perf: vector scattered RX Bruce Richardson
2014-09-17 22:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/13] Mbuf Structure Rework, part 2 Thomas Monjalon
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