Hi, One of the objectives of DPDK is avoiding of interrupts, so application (not only L2FWD) polls NIC infineteley. You can look at programmers guide section 24 "Power Management" and "L3 Forwarding with Power Management Sample Application" in Sample Applications User Guide.
Regards, Vladimir. 2014-04-01 9:24 GMT+04:00 Fred Pedrisa <fredhps10 at hotmail.com>: > Hi, > > > > Why by default L2FWD saturate both cores ? I mean, it seems it keeps > wasting > cycles due to the infinite loop placed there to check the queues. > > > > Which would be the way to improve this and make it to become more efficient > ? > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Fred > >
