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From: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Use WFE for spinlock and ring
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:30:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM5PR0802MB2465754871929304F7F7E3859E409@AM5PR0802MB2465.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8xqUi22kqghG1-rF4oB4YeYtEFNnMVW=jZ-dnps+jCXEw@mail.gmail.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 3:42 PM
> To: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; thomas@monjalon.net; jerinj@marvell.com; nd
> <nd@arm.com>; Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
> Subject: Re: Use WFE for spinlock and ring
> 
> Hello Ruifeng,

Hello David,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:57 AM Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The rte_wait_until_equal_xxx APIs abstract the functionality of
> > 'polling for a memory location to become equal to a given value'[1].
> >
> > Use the API for the rte spinlock and ring implementations.
> > With the wait until equal APIs being stable, changes will not impact ABI.
> 
> Afaics, there is no ARM target with WFE enabled and we lost ability to enable
> WFE support with removal of the make build system.

WFE can be enabled with direct meson file change.
WFE is not intended to be enabled by default. It can be enabled based on benchmarking
result on hardware.
> 
> $ git grep RTE_ARM_USE_WFE
> config/arm/meson.build:        ['RTE_ARM_USE_WFE', false],
> lib/eal/arm/include/rte_pause_64.h:#ifdef RTE_ARM_USE_WFE
> 
> How did you enable WFE to test this series?

I modified meson file to test.
Tests were also done with WFE disabled to make sure no degradation with generic implementation.
> 
> 
> --
> David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-24  7:07 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] " Gavin Hu
2020-04-24  7:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/2] spinlock: use wfe to reduce contention on aarch64 Gavin Hu
2020-04-24  7:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/2] ring: use wfe to wait for ring tail update " Gavin Hu
2020-04-24 13:23   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-04-26  8:41     ` Gavin Hu
2020-04-24 14:46   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-04-26  8:33     ` Gavin Hu
2020-04-26  8:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Use WFE for spinlock and ring Gavin Hu
2020-05-01  9:47   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-05-03 14:54   ` David Marchand
2020-05-03 21:31     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-25 14:30       ` David Marchand
2021-03-25 14:58         ` David Marchand
2021-04-25  6:06           ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-25 15:56             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-26  8:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] spinlock: use wfe to reduce contention on aarch64 Gavin Hu
2020-04-28 12:22   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-04-26  8:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] ring: use wfe to wait for ring tail update " Gavin Hu
2021-04-25  5:56 ` [dpdk-dev] Use WFE for spinlock and ring Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-25  5:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] spinlock: use wfe to reduce contention on aarch64 Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-25  5:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] ring: use wfe to wait for ring tail update " Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-26  5:38     ` Jerin Jacob
2021-04-28 17:17     ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-29 14:35       ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-29 15:05         ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-05-07  8:25           ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-28  7:42   ` [dpdk-dev] Use WFE for spinlock and ring David Marchand
2021-04-28  9:30     ` Ruifeng Wang [this message]
2021-04-28 11:13       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-29 14:28         ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-04-29 15:20           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-30  9:16             ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-30 13:41               ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-30 14:19                 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-05-07 10:18                   ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-05-07 10:24                     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-05  8:51                       ` David Marchand
2021-07-05 10:21                         ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07 14:47   ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-07-08  9:41     ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-08 16:58       ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-07-07  5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] " Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07  5:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] spinlock: use wfe to reduce contention on aarch64 Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07  5:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] ring: use wfe to wait for ring tail update " Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07  5:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] build: add option to enable wait until equal Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07 12:15     ` David Marchand
2021-07-07  5:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] Use WFE for spinlock and ring Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07  5:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] spinlock: use wfe to reduce contention on aarch64 Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07  5:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] ring: use wfe to wait for ring tail update " Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07  5:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] build: add option to enable wait until equal Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07  6:32     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-07  6:46       ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-07 12:27         ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-07 12:36           ` Jerin Jacob
2021-07-08  6:25             ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-08  6:32               ` Jerin Jacob
2021-07-08  7:32                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-08  9:21                   ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-07-08 10:28                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-09 18:39   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] Use WFE for spinlock and ring Thomas Monjalon

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