[dpdk-dev] [RFC]app/testpmd: time-consuming question of mlockall function execution
David Marchand
david.marchand at redhat.com
Tue Mar 10 16:28:13 CET 2020
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 6:49 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:59 AM humin (Q) <humin29 at huawei.com> wrote:
> > We have another question about your patch. It seems that mlockall() also takes about two seconds after using this patch(about 0.2 seconds before using this patch), if we use "always" option for transparent hugepage configration. Is this reasonable and acceptable?
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> Hard to tell what reasonable/acceptable mean.
> I'd say "it depends" :-).
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> > If that is ok, when will the patch be uploaded to DPDK community?
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> I sent a RFC earlier, that makes testpmd only lock pages containing text.
> Can you have a try and report your findings?
Let's forget about the change in testpmd.
I came with a different fix in EAL.
Can you have a try?
http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/66469/
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David Marchand
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