[PATCH v2 3/8] net/bonding: change mbuf pool and ring creation

[Robert Sanford]

- Turn off mbuf pool caching to avoid mbufs lingering in pool caches.
  At most, we transmit one LACPDU per second, per port.
  LACP tx_machine() performs the "get", and runs in the context of the
  interrupt thread (no default cache).
  PMD typically "puts" no more than one LACPDU per second, on average.
- Create rings with RING_F_EXACT_SZ flag, so that they are the desired
  size, and not one less than requested.

Signed-off-by: Robert Sanford <rsanford at akamai.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_8023ad.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_8023ad.c b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_8023ad.c
index 43231bc..9ed2a46 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_8023ad.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_8023ad.c
@@ -1101,9 +1101,7 @@ bond_mode_8023ad_activate_slave(struct rte_eth_dev *bond_dev,
 	}
 
 	snprintf(mem_name, RTE_DIM(mem_name), "slave_port%u_pool", slave_id);
-	port->mbuf_pool = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(mem_name, total_tx_desc,
-		RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE >= 32 ?
-			32 : RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE,
+	port->mbuf_pool = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(mem_name, total_tx_desc, 0,
 		0, element_size, socket_id);
 
 	/* Any memory allocation failure in initialization is critical because
@@ -1115,7 +1113,7 @@ bond_mode_8023ad_activate_slave(struct rte_eth_dev *bond_dev,
 
 	snprintf(mem_name, RTE_DIM(mem_name), "slave_%u_rx", slave_id);
 	port->rx_ring = rte_ring_create(mem_name,
-			rte_align32pow2(BOND_MODE_8023AX_SLAVE_RX_PKTS), socket_id, 0);
+		BOND_MODE_8023AX_SLAVE_RX_PKTS, socket_id, RING_F_EXACT_SZ);
 
 	if (port->rx_ring == NULL) {
 		rte_panic("Slave %u: Failed to create rx ring '%s': %s\n", slave_id,
@@ -1125,7 +1123,7 @@ bond_mode_8023ad_activate_slave(struct rte_eth_dev *bond_dev,
 	/* TX ring is at least one pkt longer to make room for marker packet. */
 	snprintf(mem_name, RTE_DIM(mem_name), "slave_%u_tx", slave_id);
 	port->tx_ring = rte_ring_create(mem_name,
-			rte_align32pow2(BOND_MODE_8023AX_SLAVE_TX_PKTS + 1), socket_id, 0);
+		BOND_MODE_8023AX_SLAVE_TX_PKTS + 1, socket_id, RING_F_EXACT_SZ);
 
 	if (port->tx_ring == NULL) {
 		rte_panic("Slave %u: Failed to create tx ring '%s': %s\n", slave_id,
-- 
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