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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 16:58:08 +0100
From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/9] raw/ioat: driver for Intel QuickData
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 04:55:51PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the Intel QuickData Technology
> device, part of the Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT). It
> is a raw device for allowing hardware DMA i.e. data copies in hardware.
> 
> Performing the copies in hardware can provide performance improvements
> for applications where the average copy size is reasonably large, e.g.
> 1k packets. For smaller packets, e.g. 64-256 bytes, offloading the copy
> may reduce performance due to the overhead of using hardware.
> 

Apologies, forgot to mention this set has a dependency on:
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=5120

/Bruce