From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Nikita Kozlov <nikita@gandi.net>
Subject: Re: LPM6 next hop size
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:42:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160921164205.000645d8@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160921172905.GA7158@mhcomputing.net>
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:29:05 -0700
Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> 5. It uses "malloc" instead of standard DPDK allocators. That's bad for me
> because I don't want to use libc malloc in my code. Only DPDK allocators and
> jemalloc.
This was intentional because rte_malloc comes out of huge page area and that
resource is a critical resource. It could use rte_malloc() but that makes it
more likely to break when doing Policy Based routing or VRF.
The BSD tree was used because it was space/time efficient lookup and available
on both BSD and Linux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-21 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-19 20:04 LPM6 next hop size Shyam Sundar Govindaraj
2016-09-19 21:18 ` Nikita Kozlov
2016-09-19 21:22 ` Matthew Hall
2016-09-20 20:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-21 17:29 ` Matthew Hall
2016-09-21 19:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-21 23:42 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-09-22 1:50 ` Matthew Hall
2016-09-22 5:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-22 17:55 ` Matthew Hall
2016-09-22 18:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-22 20:32 ` Nikita Kozlov
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