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    "id": 65787,
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    "date": "2020-02-13T12:38:48",
    "name": "[RFC,v1,0/6] barrier fix and optimization for mlx5 on aarch64",
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        "name": "Gavin Hu",
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            "date": "2020-02-13T12:38:48",
            "name": "barrier fix and optimization for mlx5 on aarch64",
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        ],
        "From": "Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>",
        "To": "dev@dpdk.org",
        "Cc": "nd@arm.com, david.marchand@redhat.com, thomas@monjalon.net,\n rasland@mellanox.com, drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com,\n konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, matan@mellanox.com, shahafs@mellanox.com,\n viacheslavo@mellanox.com, jerinj@marvell.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com,\n ruifeng.wang@arm.com, phil.yang@arm.com, joyce.kong@arm.com,\n steve.capper@arm.com",
        "Date": "Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:38:48 +0800",
        "Message-Id": "<20200213123854.203566-1-gavin.hu@arm.com>",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 0/6] barrier fix and optimization for mlx5\n\ton aarch64",
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    "content": "Using just sufficient barriers really matters to performance.\nInsufficient barriers will cause issues while barriers stronger\nthan required, especially in the fast path is a performance killer.\n\nIn the joint preliminary testing between Arm and Ampere, 8%~13%\nperformance was measured.\n\nGavin Hu (5):\n  net/mlx5: relax the barrier for UAR write\n  net/mlx5: use cio barrier before the BF WQE\n  net/mlx5: add missing barrier\n  net/mlx5: add descriptive comment for a barrier\n  net/mlx5: non-cacheable mapping defaulted for aarch64\n\nPhil Yang (1):\n  net/mlx5: relaxed ordering for multi-packet RQ buffer refcnt\n\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c  |  5 +++--\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c | 16 +++++++++-------\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h | 11 ++++++++---\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c  |  4 ++++\n 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)"
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