[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/7] event/opdl: use new API to save cycles on aarch64

Gavin Hu gavin.hu at arm.com
Sat Sep 14 16:59:56 CEST 2019


Use the new API to wait in low power state instead of continuous
polling to save CPU cycles and power.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
---
 drivers/event/opdl/opdl_ring.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/event/opdl/opdl_ring.c b/drivers/event/opdl/opdl_ring.c
index e8b29e2..f446fa3 100644
--- a/drivers/event/opdl/opdl_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/event/opdl/opdl_ring.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <rte_memory.h>
 #include <rte_memzone.h>
 #include <rte_eal_memconfig.h>
+#include <rte_atomic.h>
 
 #include "opdl_ring.h"
 #include "opdl_log.h"
@@ -475,9 +476,7 @@ opdl_ring_input_multithread(struct opdl_ring *t, const void *entries,
 	/* If another thread started inputting before this one, but hasn't
 	 * finished, we need to wait for it to complete to update the tail.
 	 */
-	while (unlikely(__atomic_load_n(&s->shared.tail, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE) !=
-			old_head))
-		rte_pause();
+	rte_wait_until_equal_acquire_32(&s->shared.tail, old_head);
 
 	__atomic_store_n(&s->shared.tail, old_head + num_entries,
 			__ATOMIC_RELEASE);
-- 
2.7.4



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