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From: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
To: "Singh, Jasvinder" <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>,
	Nidhia Varghese <nidhiavarghese93@gmail.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] [dpdk-dev] Fwd: Sharing tables among pipelines
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 16:28:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D8912652798F27@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CBAA185211B4429112C315DA58FF6D31B5F93E@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Singh, Jasvinder
> Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 11:37 AM
> To: Nidhia Varghese <nidhiavarghese93@gmail.com>; dev@dpdk.org;
> users@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Fwd: Sharing tables among pipelines
> 
> Hi Nidhia,
> 
> 
> For my pipeline application, I want to share same table between two
> different pipeline. Is that possible? If yes, how can I do it?
> 

This is usually a bad idea due to the implications: locks required for each table record, performance penalty due to cache line ping-pong between cores.

See link below for a quick discussion:
http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_framework.html#shared-data-structures

Usually we split the application-level table into several smaller tables that are sections of the big table and each one is handled by a different pipeline instance (of e.g. the flow classification pipeline type), with each instance potentially running on different CPU core; we make sure that packets reach the right pipeline instance through flow affinity schemes like RSS or SW steering.

> [Jasvinder] -  In the current ip pipeline application, we don’t have such
> illustration of sharing a table between two pipelines. Therefore, you need to
> tweak the code to implement it for your application.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jasvinder

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-04 10:13 [dpdk-users] " Nidhia Varghese
2017-05-08  4:54 ` [dpdk-users] Fwd: " Nidhia Varghese
2017-05-08  5:31   ` [dpdk-users] " zhilong zheng
2017-05-08  8:36   ` [dpdk-users] [dpdk-dev] Fwd: " Singh, Jasvinder
2017-05-09 16:28     ` Dumitrescu, Cristian [this message]
2017-05-09 17:59       ` Nidhia Varghese
2017-05-10 16:13         ` Shyam Shrivastav
2017-05-16 10:12           ` Dumitrescu, Cristian

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