[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/7] mempool/stack: add non-blocking stack mempool handler

[Olivier Matz]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:06:55AM -0600, Gage Eads wrote:
> This commit adds support for non-blocking (linked list based) stack mempool
> handler.
> 
> In mempool_perf_autotest the lock-based stack outperforms the
> non-blocking handler for certain lcore/alloc count/free count
> combinations*, however:
> - For applications with preemptible pthreads, a lock-based stack's
>   worst-case performance (i.e. one thread being preempted while
>   holding the spinlock) is much worse than the non-blocking stack's.
> - Using per-thread mempool caches will largely mitigate the performance
>   difference.
> 
> *Test setup: x86_64 build with default config, dual-socket Xeon E5-2699 v4,
> running on isolcpus cores with a tickless scheduler. The lock-based stack's
> rate_persec was 0.6x-3.5x the non-blocking stack's.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads at intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>