Re: [vpp-dev] lockless architecture

2019-08-13 Thread Satya Murthy
Hi Dave, I totally agree with you that my email was an over-simplification of a bigger issue for sure. What we are trying to see is: can a single thread handle both control plane and data plane activities for a particular application object ( ex: a flow object) , so that, a need of lock can be

Re: [vpp-dev] lockless architecture

2019-08-13 Thread Dave Barach via Lists.Fd.Io
possible to describe what you’re trying to do in detail? Thanks... Dave From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io On Behalf Of Satya Murthy Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 10:51 AM To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Subject: [vpp-dev] lockless architecture Hi , Need some inputs on the lock less architecture with multi

[vpp-dev] lockless architecture

2019-08-13 Thread Satya Murthy
Hi , Need some inputs on the lock less architecture with multi-threaded VPP system. >From the experiences we had so far, taking a lock ( whatsoever small time the >lock is taken for ) degrades the performance. Hence, trying to see if we have any feasibility of lockless architecture in VPP. We h