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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/11] vhost: advertise support in-order
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On 06/28/2018 11:52 PM, Marvin Liu wrote:
> If devices always use descriptors in the same order in which they have
> been made available. These devices can offer the VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER
> feature. If negotiated, this knowledge allows devices to notify the use
> of a batch of buffers to virtio driver by only writing used ring index.
> 
> Vhost user device has supported this feature by default. If vhost
> dequeue zero is enabled, should disable VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER as vhost can’t
> assure that descriptors returned from NIC are in order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marvin Liu <yong.liu@intel.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime