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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Manish Sharma <manish.sharmajee75@gmail.com>
Cc: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_memcpy - fence and stream
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 18:22:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YK/VVIlCwQ8cHwB3@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOT2AHVrMkq=6nw-YLu+Bq34w-u4LJARSmoRgjia4m5DR3g0LA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:39:59PM +0530, Manish Sharma wrote:
>    For the case I have, hardly 2% of the data buffers which are being
>    copied get looked at - mostly its for DMA. Having a version of DPDK
>    memcopy that does non temporal copies would definitely be good.
>    If in my case, I have a lot of CPUs doing the copy in parallel, would
>    I/OAT driver copy accelerator still help?
> 
It will depend upon the size of the copies being done. For bigger packets
the accelerator can help free up CPU cycles for other things.

However, if only 2% of the data which is being copied gets looked at, why
does it need to be copied? Can the original buffers not be used in that
case?

Regards,
/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-27 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-24  8:49 [dpdk-dev] rte_memcpy Manish Sharma
2021-05-24 18:13 ` [dpdk-dev] rte_memcpy - fence and stream Manish Sharma
2021-05-25  9:20   ` Bruce Richardson
2021-05-27 15:49     ` Morten Brørup
2021-05-27 16:25       ` Bruce Richardson
2021-05-27 17:09         ` Manish Sharma
2021-05-27 17:22           ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2021-05-27 18:15             ` Morten Brørup
2021-06-22 21:55               ` Morten Brørup

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