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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] app/testpmd: optimize testpmd txonly
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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 22:53:36 +0200
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01/04/2019 22:25, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 3/31/2019 2:14 PM, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
> > From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> > 
> > Optimize testpmd txonly mode by
> > 1. Moving per packet ethernet header copy above the loop.
> > 2. Use bulk ops for allocating segments instead of having a inner loop
> > for every segment.
> > 
> > Also, move the packet prepare logic into a separate function so that it
> > can be reused later.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> > ---
> >  v5 Changes
> >  - Remove unnecessary change to struct rte_port *txp (movement). (Bernard)
> > 
> >  v4 Changes:
> >  - Fix packet len calculation.
> > 
> >  v3 Changes:
> >  - Split the patches for easier review. (Thomas)
> >  - Remove unnecessary assignments to 0. (Bernard)
> > 
> >  v2 Changes:
> >  - Use bulk ops for fetching segments. (Andrew Rybchenko)
> >  - Fallback to rte_mbuf_raw_alloc if bulk get fails. (Andrew Rybchenko)
> >  - Fix mbufs not being freed when there is no more mbufs available for
> >  segments. (Andrew Rybchenko)
> 
> Hi Thomas, Shahafs,
> 
> I guess there was a performance issue on Mellanox with this patch, I assume it
> is still valid, since this version only has some cosmetic change, but can you
> please confirm?

We will check it.

> And what is the next step, can you guys provide some info to Pavan to solve the
> issue, or perhaps even better a fix?

Looking at the first patch, there are still 3 changes merged together.
Why not splitting even more?