[v6,1/3] test/spinlock: dealy 1 us to create contention

Message ID 1552029401-90697-2-git-send-email-gavin.hu@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Headers
Series generic spinlock optimization and test case enhancements |

Checks

Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

Commit Message

Gavin Hu March 8, 2019, 7:16 a.m. UTC
  Quickly taking and releasing the spinlock can't hit the contentions,
delay 1 us to create contention stress, this can help really show
the performance of spinlock implementation.

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joyce Kong <Joyce.Kong@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <Ola.Liljedahl@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
---
 app/test/test_spinlock.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/app/test/test_spinlock.c b/app/test/test_spinlock.c
index 73bff12..6795195 100644
--- a/app/test/test_spinlock.c
+++ b/app/test/test_spinlock.c
@@ -120,8 +120,6 @@  load_loop_fn(void *func_param)
 		lcount++;
 		if (use_lock)
 			rte_spinlock_unlock(&lk);
-		/* delay to make lock duty cycle slighlty realistic */
-		rte_delay_us(1);
 		time_diff = rte_get_timer_cycles() - begin;
 	}
 	lock_count[lcore] = lcount;