From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Huawei Xie Subject: [PATCH v6 0/2] provide rte_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk API and call it in vhost dequeue Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:03:33 +0800 Message-ID: <1453827815-56384-1-git-send-email-huawei.xie@intel.com> References: <1450049754-33635-1-git-send-email-huawei.xie@intel.com> Cc: dprovan@bivio.net To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13FB9438 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:57:57 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1450049754-33635-1-git-send-email-huawei.xie@intel.com> 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" v6 changes: reflect the changes in release notes and library version map file revise our duff's code style a bit to make it more readable v5 changes: add comment about duff's device and our variant implementation v4 changes: fix a silly typo in error handling when rte_pktmbuf_alloc fails v3 changes: move while after case 0 add context about duff's device and why we use while loop in the commit message v2 changes: unroll the loop in rte_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk to help the performance For symmetric rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk, if the app knows in its scenarios their mbufs are all simple mbufs, i.e meet the following requirements: * no multiple segments * not indirect mbuf * refcnt is 1 * belong to the same mbuf memory pool, it could directly call rte_mempool_put to free the bulk of mbufs, otherwise rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk has to call rte_pktmbuf_free to free the mbuf one by one. This patchset will not provide this symmetric implementation. Huawei Xie (2): mbuf: provide rte_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk API vhost: call rte_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk in vhost dequeue doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_3.rst | 3 ++ lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_version.map | 7 +++++ lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c | 35 ++++++++++++++--------- 4 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.4