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From: "Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco)" <jgrajcia@cisco.com>
To: "Phil Yang (Arm Technology China)" <Phil.Yang@arm.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	"Damjan Marion (damarion)" <damarion@cisco.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	"Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)" <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>,
	nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/memif: optimized with one-way barrier
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <643c7eb281aa4b1e832f9d7f34af741f@XCH-ALN-004.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VE1PR08MB464091C924770F9E1757675DE9A10@VE1PR08MB4640.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Phil Yang
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 7:00 PM
> > To: jgrajcia@cisco.com; dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: thomas@monjalon.net; jerinj@marvell.com; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> > <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>; damarion@cisco.com; nd
> <nd@arm.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/memif: optimized with one-way
> > barrier
> >
> > Using 'rte_mb' to synchronize the shared ring head/tail between
> > producer and consumer will stall the pipeline and damage performance
> > on the weak memory model platforms, such like aarch64. Meanwhile
> > update the shared ring head and tail are observable and ordered between
> CPUs on IA.
> >
> > Optimized this full barrier with the one-way barrier can improve the
> > throughput. On aarch64 n1sdp server this patch make testpmd throughput
> > boost 2.1%. On Intel E5-2640, testpmd got 3.98% performance gain.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>

The patch is looking good, but 'MEMIF_VERSION_MAJOR' in memif.h needs to
be set to 3 as ring pointers are no longer volatile.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-08 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-26 11:00 Phil Yang
2019-08-26 11:03 ` Phil Yang (Arm Technology China)
2019-10-08 11:05   ` Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco) [this message]
2019-10-09  2:10     ` Phil Yang (Arm Technology China)
2019-10-09 11:17       ` Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco)
2019-10-14  8:59         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-10-09  2:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Phil Yang
2019-10-09 11:14   ` Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco)
2019-10-10 14:04     ` David Marchand

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