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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DCA
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 01:07:59PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to ask if there is any reason why DPDK doesn't have support for
> DCA feature?
> 
> thanks,
> vlad

With modern platforms with DDIO the data written by the NIC automatically goes
into the cache of the CPU without us needing to use DCA.

/Bruce