From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Hu Subject: [PATCH v1 1/5] test/spinlock: remove 1us delay for correct spinlock benchmarking Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:42:42 +0800 Message-ID: <20181220104246.5590-2-gavin.hu@arm.com> References: <20181220104246.5590-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, jerinj@marvell.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nd@arm.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, Gavin Hu To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from foss.arm.com (usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com [217.140.101.70]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CF61B96E for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:43:07 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20181220104246.5590-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The test is to benchmark the performance of spinlock by counting the number of spinlock acquire and release operations within the specified time. A typical pair of lock and unlock operations costs tens or hundreds of nano seconds, in comparison to this, delaying 1 us outside of the locked region is too much, compromising the goal of benchmarking the lock and unlock performance. Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang Reviewed-by: Joyce Kong Reviewed-by: Phil Yang Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl --- test/test/test_spinlock.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/test/test/test_spinlock.c b/test/test/test_spinlock.c index 73bff128e..6795195ae 100644 --- a/test/test/test_spinlock.c +++ b/test/test/test_spinlock.c @@ -120,8 +120,6 @@ load_loop_fn(void *func_param) lcount++; if (use_lock) rte_spinlock_unlock(&lk); - /* delay to make lock duty cycle slighlty realistic */ - rte_delay_us(1); time_diff = rte_get_timer_cycles() - begin; } lock_count[lcore] = lcount; -- 2.11.0