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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.

  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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