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From: Kishore Padmanabha <kishore.padmanabha@broadcom.com>
To: "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: mempool cache change
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:48:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b54ad1f1692a0274da705d446972efd1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)


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Hi Thomas,



The recent change done as part of BUG ID: 1027, with commit id
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=f5e1310f16e0909e7e7f71807123644c63b23cba

Is causing performance drop for the bnxt NIC in 26.07 release.



The smaller, shallower cache increases the miss rate, causing refills to
hit the shared ring more frequently.
In the old code, the cache only touched the shared ring when it climbed
past 768 instead of 512. That extra 256 elements of headroom allowed
significantly more frees to remain local.



Could we make the change in config/rte_config.h for
RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE to be 768 instead of 512. Since we use
–mbcache=512 as argument for the performance tests.



Thanks,

Kishore

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             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-14 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-14 16:48 Kishore Padmanabha [this message]
2026-07-14 20:08 ` mempool cache change Morten Brørup

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