From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/4] ethdev new offloads API
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:16:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3508090.iDIxO5zDVA@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1502096064.git.shahafs@mellanox.com>
07/08/2017 12:54, Shahaf Shuler:
> The new API does not have an equivalent for the below Tx flags:
>
> * ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOREFCOUNT
> * ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOMULTMEMP
>
> The reason is that those flags are not to manage offloads, rather some
> guarantee from application on the way it uses mbufs, therefore could not be
> present as part of DEV_TX_OFFLOADS_*.
> Such flags are useful only for benchmarks, and therefore provide a non-realistic
> performance for DPDK customers using simple benchmarks for evaluation.
> Leveraging the work being done in this series to clean up those flags.
I agree that these flags are not offload but benchmark configuration.
They should be deprecated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-23 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-07 10:54 Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/4] ethdev: rename Rx and Tx configuration structs Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 21:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/4] ethdev: introduce Rx queue offloads API Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 12:21 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-23 13:06 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 21:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-29 12:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30 6:22 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-29 13:11 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 3/4] ethdev: introduce Tx " Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 4/4] ethdev: add helpers to move to the new " Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 12:28 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-23 13:13 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 22:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-24 7:12 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-25 13:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-29 12:55 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30 6:30 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-30 7:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30 10:16 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-30 12:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30 13:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-30 14:15 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-28 14:12 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-29 6:26 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-29 9:43 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-23 6:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/4] ethdev " Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 22:16 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-08-25 10:31 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-08-27 6:05 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-28 5:00 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-08-28 10:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-09-05 7:07 ` Jerin Jacob
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