[PATCH] power: use hugepage memory for queue list entry structure
lihuisong (C)
lihuisong at huawei.com
Mon Feb 24 13:47:44 CET 2025
在 2025/2/24 19:12, Konstantin Ananyev 写道:
>
>> 在 2025/2/20 17:41, Konstantin Ananyev 写道:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Kindly ping for review.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 在 2024/12/19 15:53, Huisong Li 写道:
>>>>> The queue_list_entry structure data is used in rx_callback of io path
>>>>> when enable PMD Power Management. However its memory is currently from
>>>>> normal heap memory. For better performance, use hugepage memory to
>>>>> replace it.
>>> Make sense to me.
>>> Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com>
>>>
>>> I suppose it would also help if you can provide some numbers:
>>> i.e.: how much exactly it is 'better'?
>>> Did you see any changes in throughput/latency numbers, etc.
>> This patch is just from my knowledge of DPDK.
>>
>> I don't what is the good way to evaluate the performance of l3fwd-power.
>>
>> But I did a test for this after you said.
>>
>> I found that the throughput of using malloc is better than rte_malloc in
>> continuous packet flow case.😮
>>
>> Can you test this patch on your platform?
> I did a quick test - didn't see any diff in performance (packet flooding) with/without the patch.
Thanks for your testing. So let's drop this patch.
>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Huisong Li <lihuisong at huawei.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> lib/power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c | 10 +++++-----
>>>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/lib/power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c b/lib/power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c
>>>>> index a2fff3b765..c7bf57a910 100644
>>>>> --- a/lib/power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c
>>>>> +++ b/lib/power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c
>>>>> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ queue_list_find(const struct pmd_core_cfg *cfg, const union queue *q)
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> static int
>>>>> -queue_list_add(struct pmd_core_cfg *cfg, const union queue *q)
>>>>> +queue_list_add(struct pmd_core_cfg *cfg, const union queue *q, unsigned int lcore_id)
>>>>> {
>>>>> struct queue_list_entry *qle;
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ queue_list_add(struct pmd_core_cfg *cfg, const union queue *q)
>>>>> if (queue_list_find(cfg, q) != NULL)
>>>>> return -EEXIST;
>>>>>
>>>>> - qle = malloc(sizeof(*qle));
>>>>> + qle = rte_zmalloc_socket(NULL, sizeof(*qle), RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE,
>>>>> + rte_lcore_to_socket_id(lcore_id));
>>>>> if (qle == NULL)
>>>>> return -ENOMEM;
>>>>> - memset(qle, 0, sizeof(*qle));
>>>>>
>>>>> queue_copy(&qle->queue, q);
>>>>> TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&cfg->head, qle, next);
>>>>> @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ rte_power_ethdev_pmgmt_queue_enable(unsigned int lcore_id, uint16_t port_id,
>>>>> goto end;
>>>>> }
>>>>> /* add this queue to the list */
>>>>> - ret = queue_list_add(lcore_cfg, &qdata);
>>>>> + ret = queue_list_add(lcore_cfg, &qdata, lcore_id);
>>>>> if (ret < 0) {
>>>>> POWER_LOG(DEBUG, "Failed to add queue to list: %s",
>>>>> strerror(-ret));
>>>>> @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ rte_power_ethdev_pmgmt_queue_disable(unsigned int lcore_id,
>>>>> * callbacks can be freed. we're intentionally casting away const-ness.
>>>>> */
>>>>> rte_free((void *)(uintptr_t)queue_cfg->cb);
>>>>> - free(queue_cfg);
>>>>> + rte_free(queue_cfg);
>>>>>
>>>>> return 0;
>>>>> }
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