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Rename the nvme_free_request macro to nvme_dealloc_request to match nvme_alloc_request and add a wrapper function to nvme.c so that the macro contents are only expanded once. The DPDK nvme_impl.h uses rte_mempool_put(), which generates a large amount of code inline. Moving this macro expansion to a wrapper function avoids inlining it in the multiple places nvme_free_request() gets called, most of which are error handling cases that are not in the hot I/O path. Change-Id: I64ea9c39ba47e26672eee8d5058f1489e07eee5b Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp <daniel.verkamp@intel.com>
Storage Performance Development Kit
The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) provides a set of tools and libraries for writing high performance, scalable, user-mode storage applications. It achieves high performance by moving all of the necessary drivers into userspace and operating in a polled mode instead of relying on interrupts, which avoids kernel context switches and eliminates interrupt handling overhead.
Prerequisites
To build SPDK, some dependencies must be installed.
Fedora/CentOS:
- gcc
- libpciaccess-devel
- CUnit-devel
Ubuntu/Debian:
- gcc
- libpciaccess-dev
- make
- libcunit1-dev
FreeBSD:
- gcc
- libpciaccess
- gmake
- cunit
Additionally, DPDK is required.
1) cd /path/to/spdk
2) wget http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-2.1.0.tar.gz
3) tar xfz dpdk-2.1.0.tar.gz
4) cd dpdk-2.1.0
Linux:
5) make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
FreeBSD:
5) gmake install T=x86_64-native-bsdapp-clang
Building
Once the prerequisites are installed, run 'make' within the SPDK directory to build the SPDK libraries and examples.
make DPDK_DIR=/path/to/dpdk
If you followed the instructions above for building DPDK:
Linux:
make DPDK_DIR=`pwd`/dpdk-2.1.0/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
FreeBSD:
gmake DPDK_DIR=`pwd`/dpdk-2.1.0/x86_64-native-bsdapp-clang
Hugepages and Device Binding
Before running an SPDK application, some hugepages must be allocated and any NVMe devices must be unbound from the native NVMe kernel driver. SPDK includes scripts to automate this process on both Linux and FreeBSD.
1) scripts/configure_hugepages.sh
2) scripts/unbind_nvme.sh