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[dpdk-dev,10/13] mbuf: split mbuf across two cache lines.

Message ID 1409759378-10113-11-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Commit Message

Bruce Richardson Sept. 3, 2014, 3:49 p.m. UTC 
  This change splits the mbuf in two to move the pool and next pointers to
the second cache line. This frees up 16 bytes in first cache line.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
 app/test/test_mbuf.c       | 2 +-
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Olivier Matz Sept. 8, 2014, 12:10 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Bruce,

On 09/03/2014 05:49 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> This change splits the mbuf in two to move the pool and next pointers to
> the second cache line. This frees up 16 bytes in first cache line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

I think you should provide more explanation in the commit log about why
this change is needed. I remeber you already provided the arguments on
the mailing list, but it could be interesting to have them in the log.

Regards,
Olivier
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Patch

diff --git a/app/test/test_mbuf.c b/app/test/test_mbuf.c
index e3d896b..82136de 100644
--- a/app/test/test_mbuf.c
+++ b/app/test/test_mbuf.c
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@  test_failing_mbuf_sanity_check(void)
 static int
 test_mbuf(void)
 {
-	RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct rte_mbuf) != 64);
+	RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct rte_mbuf) != CACHE_LINE_SIZE * 2);
 
 	/* create pktmbuf pool if it does not exist */
 	if (pktmbuf_pool == NULL) {
diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
index 591be95..db079ac 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@  struct rte_mbuf {
 		uint32_t sched; /**< Hierarchical scheduler */
 	} hash;                 /**< hash information */
 
-	/* fields only used in slow path or on TX */
+	/* second cache line - fields only used in slow path or on TX */
+	MARKER cacheline1 __rte_cache_aligned;
 	struct rte_mempool *pool; /**< Pool from which mbuf was allocated. */
 	struct rte_mbuf *next;    /**< Next segment of scattered packet. */