Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] add pointer compression API

2024-03-11 Thread David Marchand
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 8:35 PM Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote: > > We mentionned during the weekly release meeting, it seemed too late > > for merging this work in the 24.03 release. > > > > Looking at v8, I have comments on this series: > > - rather than put a Depends-on: tag, take the lib: patch as

Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] add pointer compression API

2024-03-10 Thread Honnappa Nagarahalli
+ Wathsala > On Mar 8, 2024, at 2:27 AM, David Marchand wrote: > > Hello Paul, > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 9:40 PM Paul Szczepanek > wrote: >> >> This patchset is proposing adding a new EAL header with utility functions >> that allow compression of arrays of pointers. >> >> When passing cac

Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] add pointer compression API

2024-03-08 Thread David Marchand
Hello Paul, On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 9:40 PM Paul Szczepanek wrote: > > This patchset is proposing adding a new EAL header with utility functions > that allow compression of arrays of pointers. > > When passing caches full of pointers between threads, memory containing > the pointers is copied mult

[PATCH v7 0/4] add pointer compression API

2024-03-07 Thread Paul Szczepanek
This patchset is proposing adding a new EAL header with utility functions that allow compression of arrays of pointers. When passing caches full of pointers between threads, memory containing the pointers is copied multiple times which is especially costly between cores. A compression method will

[PATCH v7 0/4] add pointer compression API

2024-03-01 Thread Paul Szczepanek
This patchset is proposing adding a new EAL header with utility functions that allow compression of arrays of pointers. When passing caches full of pointers between threads, memory containing the pointers is copied multiple times which is especially costly between cores. A compression method will