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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Thomas,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The recent change done as part of BUG ID: 1027, with commit id <a href="https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=f5e1310f16e0909e7e7f71807123644c63b23cba">https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=f5e1310f16e0909e7e7f71807123644c63b23cba</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is causing performance drop for the bnxt NIC in 26.07 release.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The smaller, shallower cache increases the miss rate, causing refills to hit the shared ring more frequently. <br>In the old code, the cache only touched the shared ring when it climbed past 768 instead of 512. That extra 256 elements of headroom allowed significantly more frees to remain local.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Could we make the change in config/rte_config.h for RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE to be 768 instead of 512. Since we use –mbcache=512 as argument for the performance tests.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kishore</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p></div></body></html>