[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] net/virtio: fix performance regression due to TSO enabling

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 02:13:09PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> But it's not the test methodology I'd expect. You are purely testing
> the instruction cycles. The drop on ARM is something more like "the
> if instruction takes more cycles than the simple assignment".
> 
> This macro is used in the case that one process is heavily writing
> same value (0 here) again and again while another process is heavily
> read it also again and again. That means cache violation always
> happen. With this macro, however, this cache issue could be avoided,
> since no write happens.
> 
> For such workload, I don't think it would behaviour worse on ARM.

No reply yet; I will treat it as no objections, and please shout out if any.

Both applied to dpdk-next-virtio.

	--yliu