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From: Tom Barbette <barbette@kth.se>
To: John Alexander <John.Alexander@datapath.co.uk>,
	"users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Transmit Completion
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 17:22:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce506a5e-5934-4149-8471-dd2da50a366c@kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB4900085829B124A0AACE3C58B4999@AM9PR09MB4900.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>

Le 02/03/2021 à 11:26, John Alexander a écrit :
> The reclaim cycle works fine when I'm continually sending, when I pause or stop sending, I never get my mbufs back so I'm wondering what the preferred way of achieving this is?

This is not something you want as most drivers reclaim buffers in 
batches for performance reasons. If you want to ensure a buffer is 
reclaimed right away you would need to do some garbage collection. Most 
NICs do not even ring a doorbell/update completion flags for every 
transmitted packets, so you would not know when they're sent exactly 
right away.

If it's lazy re-claim, I guess it's not a problem?



      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-02 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-02 10:26 John Alexander
2021-03-02 15:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-03-02 16:22 ` Tom Barbette [this message]

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