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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] hash: clarify comments for RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES
@ 2021-11-08 17:39 Vladimir Medvedkin
  2021-11-08 22:04 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
  2021-11-10 18:36 ` [PATCH v2] " Vladimir Medvedkin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Vladimir Medvedkin @ 2021-11-08 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: thomas, Yipeng Wang, Sameh Gobriel, Bruce Richardson

This patch adds a comment for RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES
explaining why a particular value was chosen.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <vladimir.medvedkin@intel.com>
---
 lib/hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.h | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.h b/lib/hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.h
index 85be49d3bb..84dc55d86e 100644
--- a/lib/hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.h
+++ b/lib/hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.h
@@ -101,7 +101,13 @@ const rte_hash_cmp_eq_t cmp_jump_table[NUM_KEY_CMP_CASES] = {
 #endif
 
 
-/** Number of items per bucket. */
+/**
+ * Number of items per bucket.
+ * 8 is a tradeoff between performance and memory consumption.
+ * When it is equal to 8, the sizeof(struct rte_hash_bucket) equal to
+ * RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, thus, there are no gaps in memory between the hash
+ * buckets due to their alignment.
+ */
 #define RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES		8
 
 #if !RTE_IS_POWER_OF_2(RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES)
-- 
2.25.1


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2021-11-09 19:11   ` Medvedkin, Vladimir
2021-11-09 19:46     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-11-10 18:26       ` Wang, Yipeng1
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2021-11-10 19:16   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
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