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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
To: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	<viktorin@rehivetech.com>, <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) mempool handler
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:55:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160620132506.GA3301@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466428091-115821-2-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:08:10PM +0100, David Hunt wrote:
> This is a mempool handler that is useful for pipelining apps, where
> the mempool cache doesn't really work - example, where we have one
> core doing rx (and alloc), and another core doing Tx (and return). In
> such a case, the mempool ring simply cycles through all the mbufs,
> resulting in a LLC miss on every mbuf allocated when the number of
> mbufs is large. A stack recycles buffers more effectively in this
> case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_mempool/Makefile            |   1 +
>  lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_stack.c | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

How about moving new mempool handlers to drivers/mempool? (or similar).
In future, adding HW specific handlers in lib/librte_mempool/ may be bad idea.

Jerin

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-05 18:29 [PATCH 0/2] mempool: add stack (fifo) mempool handler David Hunt
2016-05-05 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] " David Hunt
2016-05-05 21:28   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-05-19 15:21     ` Hunt, David
2016-05-05 18:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] test: add autotest for external mempool stack handler David Hunt
2016-05-06  8:34 ` [PATCH 0/2] mempool: add stack (fifo) mempool handler Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-06 23:02   ` Hunt, David
2016-05-19 14:48 ` v2 mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-05-19 14:48   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " David Hunt
2016-05-23 12:55     ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-15 10:10       ` Hunt, David
2016-06-17 14:18       ` Hunt, David
2016-06-20  8:17         ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-20 12:59           ` Hunt, David
2016-06-29 14:31             ` Olivier MATZ
2016-05-19 14:48   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mempool: make declaration of handler structs const David Hunt
2016-05-23 12:55     ` Olivier Matz
2016-05-24 14:01       ` Hunt, David
2016-05-19 14:48   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] test: add autotest for external mempool stack handler David Hunt
2016-05-19 15:16   ` v2 mempool: add stack (lifo) mempool handler Hunt, David
2016-06-20 13:08   ` mempool: add stack " David Hunt
2016-06-20 13:08     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-06-20 13:25       ` Jerin Jacob [this message]
2016-06-20 13:54         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-20 13:58           ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-20 14:22             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-20 17:56               ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-21  3:35                 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-21  9:28                   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-21  9:44                     ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-21  3:42           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-20 13:08     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] test: add autotest for external mempool stack handler David Hunt
2016-06-30  7:41     ` [PATCH v4 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler David Hunt
2016-06-30  7:41       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-06-30  7:41       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] test: migrate custom handler test to stack handler David Hunt
2016-06-30  9:45         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-30 17:36           ` Hunt, David
2016-06-30 17:46             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-30 17:49               ` Hunt, David
2016-06-30 18:05       ` [PATCH v5 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler David Hunt
2016-06-30 18:05         ` [PATCH v5 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-06-30 18:05         ` [PATCH v5 2/2] test: migrate custom handler test to stack handler David Hunt
2016-07-01  7:32           ` Olivier MATZ
2016-07-01  7:46         ` [PATCH v6 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler David Hunt
2016-07-01  7:46           ` [PATCH v6 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) " David Hunt
2016-07-01  7:46           ` [PATCH v6 2/2] test: migrate custom handler test to stack handler David Hunt
2016-07-01  8:18           ` [PATCH v6 0/2] mempool: add stack mempool handler Olivier MATZ
2016-07-01 10:41             ` Thomas Monjalon

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