[PATCH v3 1/1] app/testpmd: add GPU memory option for mbuf pools

[Jerin Jacob]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 4:56 PM Elena Agostini <eagostini at nvidia.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:04:59 +0000
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> > > > > From: Elena Agostini <eagostini at nvidia.com>
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> > > > > This patch introduces GPU memory in testpmd through the gpudev library.
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> > > > > Testpmd can be used for network benchmarks when using GPU memory
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> > > > > This option is currently limited to iofwd engine to ensure
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> > > > > The options chose is --mbuf-size so buffer split feature across
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> > > > > different mempools can be enabled.
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> > > > > Signed-off-by: Elena Agostini <eagostini at nvidia.com>
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> > > > Won't this create a hard dependency of test-pmd on gpudev?
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> > > > I thought gpudev was supposed to be optional
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> > > Sure, let me submit another patch to make it optional
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> > Why to add yet another compile time macro everywhere in testpmd and
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> > Adding iofwd kind of code is very simple to add test/test-gpudev and
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> > can be added in test-gpudev. It also helps to review the patches as
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> Test-gpudev is standalone unit test to ensure gpudev functions work correctly.
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> In testpmd instead, there is a connection between gpudev and the network.

I understand that. We had the same case with eventdev, where it needs to
work with network. Testpmd is already complicated, IMO, we should
focus only ethdev
test cases on testpmd, test-gpudev can use ethdev API to enable
networking requirements for gpudev.