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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] app/testpmd: add mempool bulk get for
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:43:19 +0000
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On 3/20/2019 4:53 AM, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-03-19 at 16:48 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 3/1/2019 1:47 PM, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
>>> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>>>
>>> Use mempool bulk get ops to alloc burst of packets and process
>>> them.
>>> If bulk get fails fallback to rte_mbuf_raw_alloc.
>>
>> I assume the motivation is performance improvement, do you have the
>> numbers
>> before and after this patch?
> 
> We are seeing approximately 500% improvement with the patch on
> octeontx2.

%500 is interesting.

btw, Intel also confirmed the improvement:
Tested-by: Yingya Han <yingyax.han@intel.com>

> 
>>
>> cc'ed maintainers.
>>
>>> Suggested-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>>
>> <...>
>>
> 
>