[dpdk-dev] L2FWD uses 'too much' CPU

2014-04-01 Thread Vladimir Medvedkin
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.

[dpdk-dev] L2FWD uses 'too much' CPU

2014-04-01 Thread Fred Pedrisa
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