From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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 18:50:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160922015034.GA10277@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160921164205.000645d8@xeon-e3>
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 04:42:05PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
Can we get more clarity on why PBR or VRF would break it? The performance and
fragmentation of the default glibc allocator are quite bad. So I am trying to
avoid it in my app for example.
Matthew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-22 1:50 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
2016-09-22 1:50 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
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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