[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] app/testpmd: add mempool bulk get for txonly mode

[Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula]

On Tue, 2019-03-19 at 16:48 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 3/1/2019 1:47 PM, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
> > From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
> > 
> > Use mempool bulk get ops to alloc burst of packets and process
> > them.
> > If bulk get fails fallback to rte_mbuf_raw_alloc.
> 
> I assume the motivation is performance improvement, do you have the
> numbers
> before and after this patch?

We are seeing approximately 500% improvement with the patch on
octeontx2.

> 
> cc'ed maintainers.
> 
> > Suggested-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
> 
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