[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] net/szedata2: use dynamically allocated queues

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/6/2018 2:20 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 4/4/2018 2:42 PM, Matej Vido wrote:
>> Previously the queues were the part of private data structure of the
>> Ethernet device.
>> Now the queues are allocated at setup thus numa-aware allocation is
>> possible.
> 
> Hi Matej,
> 
> Yes by default [rt]x_queues are allocated via rte_zmalloc, which uses SOCKET_ID_ANY.
> 
> And in burst functions, we do:
>  nb_rx = (*dev->rx_pkt_burst)(dev->data->rx_queues[queue_id], rx_pkts, nb_pkts);
> 
> So there is an access to rx_queues in each rte_eth_rx_burst() call.
> 
> I wonder if you observe any performance difference with this update?
> And what about moving to the ethdev layer instead of keeping local to the PMD?

Forget about it, I thought you are allocating data->[rt]x_queues in specific
socket, but this just allocating queues in specific socket, which is OK.

Still I would like to hear comments if allocating data->[rt]x_queues arrays in
specific socket helps for performance.

> 
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>> Signed-off-by: Matej Vido <vido at cesnet.cz>
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