[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] examples/distributor: detect high frequency cores

Hunt, David david.hunt at intel.com
Mon Apr 1 11:07:35 CEST 2019


Hi Thomas

On 29/3/2019 1:15 PM, David Hunt wrote:
> The distributor application is bottlenecked by the distributor core,
> so if we can give more frequency to this core, then the overall
> performance of the application may increase.
>
> This patch uses the rte_power_get_capabilities() API to query the
> cores provided in the core mask, and if any high frequency cores are
> found (e.g. Turbo Boost is enabled), we will pin the distributor
> workload to that core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Ma <liang.j.ma at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> ---


Please wait for v4, I'm working on a change for later today.

Thanks,
Dave.




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