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From: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/13] mbuf: expand ol_flags field to 64-bits
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 09:00:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B0343EFA8F@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540D8421.7070808@6wind.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier MATZ [mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 11:26 AM
> To: Richardson, Bruce; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/13] mbuf: expand ol_flags field to 64-bits
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> On 09/03/2014 05:49 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > The offload flags field (ol_flags) was 16-bits and had no further room
> > for expansion. This patch increases the field size to 64-bits, using up
> > the remaining reserved space in the single-cache-line mbuf.
> >
> > NOTE: none of the values for existing flags have been changed, i.e. no
> > new numbers have been explicitly reserved between existing flag
> > definitions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> 
> The initial series I've proposed [1][2] had on more enhancement: the
> first patch [1] allowed to remove the definition of flag names in
> testpmd. Indeed, this is not really good because they must be kept
> synchronized with the flags in rte_mbuf. What do you think about this
> patch? Should it be integrated in your series? Or later? Or never? ;)

No, it is a good change - I've just keep it out of my series for simplicity as I'm largely trying to keep the scope as small as possible. I would love to see that go in as a separate patch maybe once the mbuf rework is finished. 

> 
> The second patch [2] changes the value of the flags. This is not needed
> now, but if we do it in the future, we should not forget to change
> app/test-pmd/cmdline.c accordingly. Maybe this could go in your patch
> directly as it does not hurt?

As above for now. Right now I'm just trying to get the structure worked out, and deal with any performance regressions that are found (such as what Pablo found last Friday :-( ). 

/Bruce

> 
> Olivier
> 
> 
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002545.html
> [2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002546.html

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09  8:56 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
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 [this message]
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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