From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhihong Wang Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Reduce DPDK initialization time Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:27:09 -0500 Message-ID: <1447817231-10510-1-git-send-email-zhihong.wang@intel.com> To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191E25A53 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:29:43 +0100 (CET) List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" This RFC patch aims to reduce DPDK initialization time, which is important in cases such as micro service. Changes are: 1. Reduce timer initialization time 2. Remove unnecessary hugepage zero-filling operations With this patch: 1. Timer initialization time can be reduced by 4/10 second 2. Memory initialization time can be reduced nearly by half The 2nd topic has been brought up before in this thread: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/4219/ Zhihong Wang (2): lib/librte_eal: Reduce timer initialization time lib/librte_eal: Remove unnecessary hugepage zero-filling lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 5 +---- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_timer.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0