20.11.7 patches review and test

[Morten Brørup]

> From: Luca Boccassi [mailto:luca.boccassi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 28 November 2022 12.55
> 
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 11:35, Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > +CC Andrew Rybchenko as co-signer on the mempool patch in mainline.
> >
> > > From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com [mailto:luca.boccassi at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, 28 November 2022 11.53

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> > >       mempool: fix get objects from mempool with cache
> >
> > Reviewed stable release patch [1], comparing it to the accepted
> mainline patch [2].
> >
> > [1]: https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
> stable/commit/?h=20.11&id=26cb4c81b552594292f7c744afb904f01700dfe8
> > [2]:
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221007104450.2567961-1-
> andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru/
> >
> > This is not correct:
> > +               __MEMPOOL_STAT_ADD(mp, get_success_bulk, 1);
> > +               __MEMPOOL_STAT_ADD(mp, get_success_objs, n);
> >
> > The old macro did more, so it should be:
> > +               __MEMPOOL_STAT_ADD(mp, get_success, n);
> >
> > This is only visible if built with RTE_LIBRTE_MEMPOOL_DEBUG.
> >
> > Besides that, it looks perfectly good to me.
> 
> Can you test a patch and send it?

Extremely busy these days... Not sure I can make it within the deadline.

Alternatively, consider omitting the patch. It only fixes some performance issues for certain use cases.

-Morten