Thanks Thomas and Neil. Sadly, no joy. While I generally like gmail for my mail, there's not a reasonable way to import the mbox file or to control the message id.
If someone else wants to resend the message to the list, I can reply to that. Otherwise, here are the relevant bits from the original patch email: >From patchwork Wed Jul 23 06:45:12 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] kni: optimizing the rte_kni_rx_burst From: Hemant Agrawal <hem...@freescale.com> X-Patchwork-Id: 84 Message-Id: <14060979121185-git-send-email-Hemant at freescale.com> To: <dev at dpdk.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:15:12 +0530 The current implementation of rte_kni_rx_burst polls the fifo for buffers. Irrespective of success or failure, it allocates the mbuf and try to put them into the alloc_q if the buffers are not added to alloc_q, it frees them. This waste lots of cpu cycles in allocating and freeing the buffers if alloc_q is full. The logic has been changed to: 1. Initially allocand add buffer(burstsize) to alloc_q 2. Add buffers to alloc_q only when you are pulling out the buffers. Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <Hemant at freescale.com> --- lib/librte_kni/rte_kni.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_kni/rte_kni.c b/lib/librte_kni/rte_kni.c index 76feef4..01e85f8 100644 --- a/lib/librte_kni/rte_kni.c +++ b/lib/librte_kni/rte_kni.c @@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ rte_kni_alloc(struct rte_mempool *pktmbuf_pool, ctx->in_use = 1; + /* Allocate mbufs and then put them into alloc_q */ + kni_allocate_mbufs(ctx); + return ctx; fail: @@ -369,8 +372,9 @@ rte_kni_rx_burst(struct rte_kni *kni, struct rte_mbuf **mbufs, unsigned num) { unsigned ret = kni_fifo_get(kni->tx_q, (void **)mbufs, num); - /* Allocate mbufs and then put them into alloc_q */ - kni_allocate_mbufs(kni); + /* If buffers removed, allocate mbufs and then put them into alloc_q */ + if(ret) + kni_allocate_mbufs(kni); return ret; } The patch looks good from a DPDK 1.6r2 viewpoint. We saw the same behavior in our app and ended up avoiding it higher in the stack (in our code). Reviewed-by: Jay Rolette <rolette at infiniteio.com> Jay On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:52:48AM -0600, Jay Rolette wrote: > > There's a fairly old KNI patch (http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/84/) > > that I reviewed, but I'm not seeing how to submit my "Reviewed-by" when I > > don't have any of the emails from the patch in my mail client. > > > > I can copy the text from the 'mbox' link in Patchwork into an email, but > > I'm guessing that may not make the patch toolchain happy. > > > > What's the right way to do this? > > > Just grab the message id from the patchwork site, and list it in the > envelope > headers in-reply-to: field when you respond. You won't have the rest of > the > conversation field in the thread, but you will respond properly to the > thread, > and patchwork will pick up the ACK > Neil > > > Thanks, > > Jay > > >