> > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Phil Yang > > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 7:00 PM > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Honnappa Nagarahalli > > <[email protected]>; [email protected]; nd > <[email protected]> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/memif: optimized with one-way > > barrier > > > > Using 'rte_mb' to synchronize the shared ring head/tail between > > producer and consumer will stall the pipeline and damage performance > > on the weak memory model platforms, such like aarch64. Meanwhile > > update the shared ring head and tail are observable and ordered between > CPUs on IA. > > > > Optimized this full barrier with the one-way barrier can improve the > > throughput. On aarch64 n1sdp server this patch make testpmd throughput > > boost 2.1%. On Intel E5-2640, testpmd got 3.98% performance gain. > > > > Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <[email protected]> > > Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <[email protected]>
The patch is looking good, but 'MEMIF_VERSION_MAJOR' in memif.h needs to be set to 3 as ring pointers are no longer volatile.
