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Eelco Chaudron 1c036b16c2 app/testpmd: avoid pages being swapped out
Call the mlockall() function, to attempt to lock all of its process
memory into physical RAM, and preventing the kernel from paging any
of its memory to disk.

When using testpmd for performance testing, depending on the code path
taken, we see a couple of page faults in a row. These faults effect
the overall drop-rate of testpmd. On Linux the mlockall() call will
prefault all the pages of testpmd (and the DPDK libraries if linked
dynamically), even without LD_BIND_NOW.

Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2017-10-10 00:30:16 +01:00
app app/testpmd: avoid pages being swapped out 2017-10-10 00:30:16 +01:00
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DPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing.
It supports many processor architectures and both FreeBSD and Linux.

The DPDK uses the Open Source BSD license for the core libraries and
drivers. The kernel components are GPLv2 licensed.

Please check the doc directory for release notes,
API documentation, and sample application information.

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