Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] examples/eventdev_pipeline: added sample app

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 14:26:47 +0100
> From: "Hunt, David" <david.hunt@intel.com>
> To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> CC: dev@dpdk.org, harry.van.haaren@intel.com, Gage Eads
>  <gage.eads@intel.com>, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] examples/eventdev_pipeline: added sample app
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> Hi Jerin,
> 
> On 6/7/2017 11:04 AM, Hunt, David wrote:
> > 
> > On 6/7/2017 4:31 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> 
> Having looked at this a bit more, and unable to reproduce with my original
> kernel version checkpatch, and the patchwork version does not show, and the
> 4.11.9 stable kernel version does not show, I suggest we mark these down as
> false positives, as the string is not intended to show the function name.
> 
> 
> > > I will give pull request Thomas on Friday morning. I will include
> > > this change set
> > > in the pull request.
> > > 
> > > Regarding the performance drop, Can you add __rte_cache_aligned on those
> > > variable which creates regression in moving to rte_malloc area. The
> > > cache line could be shared? If not fixing then its fine we will look
> > > into that latter.
> > 
> > I will investigate and post a new patch in a few hours.
> > 
> 
> Of the 4 variables I am attempting to move into fastpath structure, no
> matter whether I move them one at a time or all at once, with
> __rte_cache_align or not, I still see a significant performance degradation.
> I suggest looking into this later.
> 
> I will push a patch in the next couple of hours with the first two changes
> mentioned above.  OK with you?


OK.


> 
> Regards,
> Dave.
> 
> 
> 
>