[dpdk-dev] DPDK & QPI performance issue in Romley platform.

2013-09-06 Thread Zachary
Hi~ Bob, Thanks for your response! So, you think it is memory usage problem rather than QPI issue? That means if I improve the memory usage issue, may the preformance will raise to my expected? BTW, Have anyone every use DPDK in NUMA and use crossing CPU like my case? If yes, could you tell me ho

[dpdk-dev] Merge with 1.4.1??

2013-09-06 Thread St Leger, Jim
As Stephen noted, Intel has posted our latest Intel DPDK to our site. The main site is http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-technology/packet-processing-is-enhanced-with-software-from-intel-dpdk.html You'll see the code (as referenced below for download http://www.in

[dpdk-dev] Recommended method of getting timestamps?

2013-09-06 Thread Dmitry Vyal
Hello Patrick, I guess gettimeofday is too heavy if all you need is an abstract timestamp not related to any particular calendar. I think you should look at rte_rdtsc()? It returns a current value of CPU tick counter. So it's very cheap (just a few clocks) and has a great resolution (a fractio