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Hi Thomas,


On 10/10/2016 9:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Thanks Tim for the interesting inputs.
> Some of them may require a dedicated thread to continue the discussion
> based on some preliminary specifications or drafts.
>
> 2016-10-10 16:13, O'Driscoll, Tim:
>> Packet Distributor Enhancements: Enhancements will be made to the Packet Distributor library to improve performance:
>> 1. Introduce burst functionality to allow batches of packets to be sent to workers.
>> 2. Improve the performance of the flow/core affinity through the use of SSE/AVX instructions.
> The packet distributor looks more and more like a DPDK application
> at the same level of BESS, VPP, OVS, etc.

Lets discuss this further.  Would you see other libraries heading in 
this direction also (reorder, acl, hash, etc)?
Do you think it would be an idea to add as an item of discussion for the 
technical steering group when we're all at Userspace next week?

Regards,
Dave.