From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Richardson Subject: [PATCH 0/4] fixes for rte_hash with TSX Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 17:39:09 +0000 Message-ID: <20181105173913.61225-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Bruce Richardson 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 D109A4CBD for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 18:39:22 +0100 (CET) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" When testing with rte_hash library and TSX, a higher level of transaction aborts was observed in some cases, especially with newer compilers. These patches reduce aborts by ensuring that the compiler does not accidentally insert instructions that cause aborts, and by adding in delays on retry to avoid repeated collisions. Bruce Richardson (2): eal/x86: reduce contention when retrying TSX test/test: improve output for hash read-write test Yipeng Wang (2): hash: fix extra TSX collisions with newer gcc hash: add local cache for TSX region .../common/include/arch/x86/rte_spinlock.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_alarm.c | 2 ++ lib/librte_hash/rte_cmp_x86.h | 2 ++ lib/librte_hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.c | 7 ++++--- test/test/test_hash_readwrite.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- 5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 1.8.5.6