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From: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
To: Shirley Avishour <shirley@imvisiontech.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] running dpdk application on the same machine with other none dpdk application
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:09:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHLOa7TP_Qrm2aDdAQT=MpS-1Fs+DtCGe8PQpxFXdtH6AU4cEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACn717hahpyEHZsj+xrSFwLEEvgSWHbQnMsdcrsLZvAYQSNuwg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, Shirley

>In order to do that we isolated the dpdk application cores and disabled
hyperthreading for those cores.
>we are using 5 cores for the dpdk application (which is in fact 10 since
hyperthreading is disabled).

Short clarification question: did you do it with EAL paramater ?

Was it with
-l CORELIST / --lcores COREMAP EAL parameter ?

Did you try also the isolcpus Linux kernel parameter in order to isolate
cores from the general Linux scheduler?

Regards,
Rami Rosen


On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 6:32 PM Shirley Avishour <shirley@imvisiontech.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> We are trying to run a dpdk based application one the same machine with
> other java based applications.
> In order to do that we isolated the dpdk application cores and disabled
> hyperthreading for those cores.
> But sporadically we encounter misses over the interface.
> We are running on a single socket cpu with 44 hyperthreaded cores.
> we are using 5 cores for the dpdk application (which is in fact 10 since
> hyperthreading is disabled).
> My guess is that probably GC (garbage collection) running from the kernel
> and perhaps over the isolated threads causing the misses.
> Is there a way to solve this issue? Is there a way to isolate cores for
> kernel processes/threads?
> Thanks in advance,
> Shirley.
>


-- 
regards,
Rami Rosen

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-29 16:32 Shirley Avishour
2019-01-30  6:09 ` Rami Rosen [this message]
2019-01-30  6:31   ` Shirley Avishour
2019-01-30  6:57     ` Rami Rosen
2019-01-30  7:05       ` Shirley Avishour
2019-01-30  7:26         ` Rami Rosen
2019-01-30  7:47           ` Shirley Avishour
2019-01-30  8:18             ` Rami Rosen
2019-01-30  8:27               ` Shirley Avishour
2019-01-30  8:30                 ` Shirley Avishour
2019-01-30  8:40                   ` Rami Rosen
2019-01-30  8:45                     ` Shirley Avishour

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