[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] test/stack: improve multithreaded test

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:20 PM Steven Lariau <steven.lariau at arm.com> wrote:
>
> The current multithread DPDK stack test is using atomics operations to
> share information between threads.
> The lockfree stack implementation also uses atomic operations.
> This is an issue for testing. The atomics operations for the test may
> add some extra synchronization to the stack implementation,
> that doesn't exist.
> It makes it harder to find bugs related to memory orderings and data
> races. The main goal of the patch is to remove all atomics operations
> and any other form of data sharing in this test, to make sure that
> most of the execution time is spent on the stack library.
>
> Furthermore, this patch uses more appropriate functions to start /
> wait cores in order to simplify the code.
> The patch also adds code to propagate errors on any slave core to the
> master.
>
> v2: replace stack variable for arguments with a global variable.
>
> Steven Lariau (4):
>   test/stack: avoid trivial memory allocations
>   test/stack: launch tests with mp remote launch API
>   test/stack: propagate errors to main core
>   test/stack: remove atomics operations
>
>  app/test/test_stack.c | 80 +++++++++----------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>

Series applied, thanks Steven.


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David Marchand