On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:08:10PM +0100, David Hunt wrote: > This is a mempool handler that is useful for pipelining apps, where > the mempool cache doesn't really work - example, where we have one > core doing rx (and alloc), and another core doing Tx (and return). In > such a case, the mempool ring simply cycles through all the mbufs, > resulting in a LLC miss on every mbuf allocated when the number of > mbufs is large. A stack recycles buffers more effectively in this > case. > > Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com> > --- > lib/librte_mempool/Makefile | 1 + > lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_stack.c | 145 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How about moving new mempool handlers to drivers/mempool? (or similar). In future, adding HW specific handlers in lib/librte_mempool/ may be bad idea. Jerin
