From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0CBCFD8 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 04:18:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 12 Mar 2017 20:18:42 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,156,1486454400"; d="scan'208";a="59448797" Received: from fmsmsx104.amr.corp.intel.com ([10.18.124.202]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2017 20:18:39 -0700 Received: from fmsmsx123.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.125.38) by fmsmsx104.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.124.202) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.248.2; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:18:18 -0700 Received: from shsmsx101.ccr.corp.intel.com (10.239.4.153) by fmsmsx123.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.125.38) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.248.2; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:18:17 -0700 Received: from shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com ([169.254.2.88]) by SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com ([169.254.1.177]) with mapi id 14.03.0248.002; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:17:49 +0800 From: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> To: Billy McFall <bmcfall@redhat.com>, "thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>, "olivier.matz@6wind.com" <olivier.matz@6wind.com> CC: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org> Thread-Topic: [PATCH v6 2/3] net/e1000: e1000 igb support to free consumed buffers Thread-Index: AQHSmRb1g4rA79ks9k+qY8ZAvOfFOqGSHmig Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 03:17:48 +0000 Message-ID: <6A0DE07E22DDAD4C9103DF62FEBC09093B56EE43@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> References: <20170127183800.27466-1-bmcfall@redhat.com> <20170309205119.28170-1-bmcfall@redhat.com> <20170309205119.28170-3-bmcfall@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170309205119.28170-3-bmcfall@redhat.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.239.127.40] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/3] net/e1000: e1000 igb support to free consumed buffers X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 03:18:46 -0000 Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Billy McFall [mailto:bmcfall@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 4:51 AM > To: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com; Lu, Wenzhuo; olivier.matz@6wind.com > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Billy McFall > Subject: [PATCH v6 2/3] net/e1000: e1000 igb support to free consumed buf= fers >=20 > Add support to the e1000 igb driver for the new API to force free consume= d > buffers on Tx ring. This API is independent of the tx_rs_thresh setting. = With this > API, buffers should be free even if tx_rs_thresh is not met. >=20 > e1000 igb driver does not implement a tx_rs_thresh to free mbufs, it free= s a slot > in the ring as needed. However, it could be implemented at some future da= te. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Billy McFall <bmcfall@redhat.com> Acked-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>