The per-lcore random state is frequently updated by their individual lcores, so add a cache guard to prevent CPU cache thrashing.
Depends-on: series-29415 ("clarify purpose of empty cache lines") Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> --- lib/eal/common/rte_random.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/lib/eal/common/rte_random.c b/lib/eal/common/rte_random.c index 565f2401ce..3df0c7004a 100644 --- a/lib/eal/common/rte_random.c +++ b/lib/eal/common/rte_random.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct rte_rand_state { uint64_t z3; uint64_t z4; uint64_t z5; + RTE_CACHE_GUARD; } __rte_cache_aligned; /* One instance each for every lcore id-equipped thread, and one -- 2.17.1