> > > 2014-07-23 12:15, Hemant Agrawal: > > > > The current implementation of rte_kni_rx_burst polls the fifo for > > > > buffers. > > > > Irrespective of success or failure, it allocates the mbuf and try to > > > > put them into the alloc_q > > > > if the buffers are not added to alloc_q, it frees them. > > > > This waste lots of cpu cycles in allocating and freeing the buffers if > > > > alloc_q is full. > > > > > > > > The logic has been changed to: > > > > 1. Initially allocand add buffer(burstsize) to alloc_q > > > > 2. Add buffers to alloc_q only when you are pulling out the buffers. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <Hemant at freescale.com> > > From http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-January/011771.html, Jay said > "The patch looks good from a DPDK 1.6r2 viewpoint. We saw the same behavior > in our app and ended up avoiding it higher in the stack (in our code)." > Reviewed-by: Jay Rolette <rolette at infiniteio.com>
Applied, thanks
