[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/memif: optimized with one-way barrier

[Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:05 AM
> To: Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco)
> <jgrajcia at cisco.com>; ferruh.yigit at intel.com; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: thomas at monjalon.net; Damjan Marion (damarion)
> <damarion at cisco.com>; Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com;
> gavin.hu at arm.com; nd at arm.com
> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/memif: optimized with one-way barrier
> 
> Using 'rte_mb' to synchronize the shared ring head/tail between producer and
> consumer will stall the pipeline and damage performance on the weak
> memory model platform such like AArch64. Meanwhile update the shared
> ring head and tail are observable and ordered between CPUs on IA.
> 
> Optimized this full barrier with the one-way barrier can improve the
> throughput. On AArch64 n1sdp server this patch make testpmd throughput
> boost 2.1%. On Intel E5-2640, testpmd got 3.98% performance gain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
> ---
> v2:
> Upgrade 'MEMIF_VERSION_MAJOR' number to 3. (Jakub Grajciar)
> 
> v1:
> Initial version.

I jumped the gun with the version bump. The change doesn't break compatibility. I'm putting reviewed label on v1.

Sorry for the inconvenience.