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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Dept-EngDPDKDev@qlogic.com,
	Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] bnx2x: refactor Tx routine for single doorbell mechanism
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 15:45:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160506144524.GB8880@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462340302-25683-1-git-send-email-rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:38:20PM -0700, Rasesh Mody wrote:
> Change the Tx routine logic to ring the doorbell once per burst and not
> on every Tx packet. This driver-level optimization is necessary to achieve
> line rates for larger frame sizes (1k or more).
> 
> Fixes: 540a211084a7 ("bnx2x: driver core")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>

Hi Rasesh, Harish,

there is quite a bit of churn to the tx_encap routine in this patch, but the
reason for that function change is not really explained well here - why it's
changed from a burst function to a single mbuf function. This is confusing when
the overall objective of the patch seems to be to do the opposite - have things
more burst oriented.

It might be better to have this patch split into two patches - one changing the
tx_encap function and then a second one to restructure the xmit function.

Regards,
/Bruce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-06 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-04  5:38 Rasesh Mody
2016-05-04  5:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] bnx2x: enhance stats get Rasesh Mody
2016-05-06 14:47   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-07  0:14     ` Rasesh Mody
2016-05-10 10:27       ` Remy Horton
2016-05-11  0:58         ` Rasesh Mody
2016-06-21  9:00           ` Remy Horton
2016-05-04  5:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] bnx2x: update PMD version to 1.0.1.1 Rasesh Mody
2016-05-06 14:45 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2016-05-11  5:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] bnx2x: refactor Tx routine for single doorbell mechanism Harish Patil

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