[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/4] lib: add bitrate statistics library

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:03:12 +0800
Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com> wrote:

> +
> +struct rte_stats_bitrates_s *
> +rte_stats_bitrate_create(void)
> +{
> +	return rte_zmalloc(NULL, sizeof(struct rte_stats_bitrates_s), 0);
> +}
> +

You want these statistics to be cache aligned (ie not 0) to avoid
false cache sharing.

Since these statistics are often associated with a device would it
not make sense to have a NUMA socket associated with the alllocation?