From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, jianbo.liu@linaro.org,
huawei.xie@intel.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] virtio: introduce RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_INC_VECTOR
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:59:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3436400.asiby3BQPB@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160627144829.GA25422@localhost.localdomain>
2016-06-27 20:18, Jerin Jacob:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:19:57PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-06-27 17:24, Jerin Jacob:
> > > --- a/config/common_base
> > > +++ b/config/common_base
> > > @@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_RX=n
> > > CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_TX=n
> > > CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_DRIVER=n
> > > CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_DUMP=n
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_INC_VECTOR=y
> >
> > I don't remember what means INC_VECTOR?
> > Why a config option is needed for vector implementations?
>
> I thought of adding additional configuration option(INC_VECTOR) _apart_ from
> cpu flag based scheme in the patch because even though if a given platform
> has cpu instruction support, in some platforms scalar version may
> perform well wrt vector version(based on instruction latency, emulation required or not
> etc). So a top level flag INC_VECTOR, can override the vector selection
> for a given platform if required.
Isn't it a runtime driver option needed to disable vector virtio?
> Regarding INC_VECTOR(INC in vector configuration name, I have no idea, I
> followed the existing flags)
> $ grep "INC_VECTOR" config/common_base
> CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_INC_VECTOR=y
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR=y
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_FM10K_INC_VECTOR=y
If the flag is really needed I would suggest VIRTIO_VECTOR.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-27 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-27 11:54 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Virtio NEON support for ARM Jerin Jacob
2016-06-27 11:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] virtio: Fix compile time dependency of use_simple_rxtx usage Jerin Jacob
2016-06-27 11:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] virtio: introduce RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_INC_VECTOR Jerin Jacob
2016-06-27 14:19 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-27 14:48 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-27 14:59 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-06-29 11:18 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-29 11:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-29 11:40 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-30 5:44 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-27 11:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] virtio: move SSE based Rx implementation to separate file Jerin Jacob
2016-06-28 6:17 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-06-29 11:27 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-30 5:43 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-27 11:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] virtio: add neon support Jerin Jacob
2016-07-01 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com> Jerin Jacob
2016-07-01 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] virtio: conditional compilation cleanup Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 7:36 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-04 8:36 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 8:42 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-04 9:07 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 11:02 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-04 12:15 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 12:26 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-04 12:50 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 12:57 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-01 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] virtio: move SSE based Rx implementation to separate file Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 7:42 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-04 8:38 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-01 11:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] virtio: add neon support Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 7:53 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-04 8:55 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 9:02 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-05 12:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Virtio NEON support for ARM Jerin Jacob
2016-07-05 12:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] virtio: conditional compilation cleanup Jerin Jacob
2016-07-05 12:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] virtio: move SSE based Rx implementation to separate file Jerin Jacob
2016-08-18 6:52 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-08-19 3:24 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-08-23 7:43 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-05 12:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] virtio: add cpuflag based vector handler selection Jerin Jacob
2016-07-05 12:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] virtio: add neon support Jerin Jacob
2016-07-06 3:11 ` Jianbo Liu
2016-09-28 0:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Virtio NEON support for ARM Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-01 11:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] " Jerin Jacob
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