Hi Florin,

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:01 PM Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Because if it can work with all of its buffers cached, without flushing them 
> to main memory, it can access and therefore ‘process’ them faster.

Understood. Is there any means to see how many buffers are in use
currently, and if they are cached?

> It's two copies vs more buffer memory, not bigger buffers. Flushing and 
> reading buffers to/from main memory are pretty much copy operations.
> Nsim typically needs a lot of buffer memory, therefore instead of trashing 
> the cache and potentially impacting other vpp components, it directly stores 
> everything in memory.

That's clear.

Thanks!

Raj
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