[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] mempool: user-owned mempool caches

[Lazaros Koromilas]

Updated version of the user-owned cache patchset.  It applies on top of
the latest external mempool manager patches from David Hunt [1].

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/041479.html

v3 changes:

 * Deprecate specific mempool API calls instead of removing them.
 * Split deprecation into a separate commit to limit noise.
 * Fix cache flush by setting cache->len = 0 and make it inline.
 * Remove cache->size == 0 checks and ensure size != 0 at creation.
 * Fix tests to check if cache creation succeeded.
 * Fix tests to free allocated resources on error.

The mempool cache is only available to EAL threads as a per-lcore
resource. Change this so that the user can create and provide their own
cache on mempool get and put operations. This works with non-EAL threads
too.

Also, deprecate the explicit {mp,sp}_put and {mc,sc}_get calls and
re-route them through the new generic calls. Minor cleanup to pass the
mempool bit flags instead of using specific is_mp and is_mc. The old
cache-oblivious API calls use the per-lcore default local cache. The
mempool and mempool_perf tests are also updated to handle the
user-owned cache case.

Introduced API calls:

    rte_mempool_cache_create(size, socket_id)
    rte_mempool_cache_free(cache)
    rte_mempool_cache_flush(cache, mp)
    rte_mempool_default_cache(mp, lcore_id)

    rte_mempool_generic_put(mp, obj_table, n, cache, flags)
    rte_mempool_generic_get(mp, obj_table, n, cache, flags)

Deprecated API calls:

    rte_mempool_mp_put_bulk(mp, obj_table, n)
    rte_mempool_sp_put_bulk(mp, obj_table, n)
    rte_mempool_mp_put(mp, obj)
    rte_mempool_sp_put(mp, obj)
    rte_mempool_mc_get_bulk(mp, obj_table, n)
    rte_mempool_sc_get_bulk(mp, obj_table, n)
    rte_mempool_mc_get(mp, obj_p)
    rte_mempool_sc_get(mp, obj_p)

Lazaros Koromilas (3):
  mempool: deprecate specific get/put functions
  mempool: use bit flags instead of is_mp and is_mc
  mempool: allow for user-owned mempool caches

 app/test/test_mempool.c          | 104 +++++++++++-----
 app/test/test_mempool_perf.c     |  70 +++++++++--
 lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c |  66 +++++++++-
 lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h | 256 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 4 files changed, 385 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)

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