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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Xie, Huawei" <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] virtio: virtio ring layout optimization and vectorization rx
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:37:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4377815.VgSsvvaXDb@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C37D651A908B024F974696C65296B57B40F26629@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>

2015-09-22 09:29, Xie, Huawei:
> On 9/22/2015 4:38 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > I thought it was clear we must avoid #ifdef for configuration.
> > Please check how to add a runtime flag.
> > Or better: keep only one path which works everywhere and well optimized.
> 
> Thomas, i have this in mind when i am developing this feature and i plan
> to discuss this with you. In theory, the best solution would be using
> run time flag and the result would be normally we always choose the
> optimized path.
> The situation in real world is, in my mind, this feature isn't mature
> enough(Of course this doesn't mean it has known issues). One good
> solution in kernel community is experimental features.
> Could we also have experimental/development tag? I would like to put
> this as experimental/development feature temporarily, turn it off by
> default and continue to improve it.

I think it is a rework, not an experimental feature.

> The advantage is we have it in tree and every developers could pull it
> and help improve it. Also, it is the base for continuous vhost
> optimization. We should have a performance optimized driver for the
> device side optimization.

If there are some acceptance problem, it can be solved on the list.
If there are some bugs after integration, it can be fixed before the release,
as there are some validation and non-regression tests.

If the new Rx/Tx code can replace the old one, please replace it.
If the use cases are different, please use a runtime flag.
It it is not ready, please do more tests and re-submit later.

By the way, thanks for your work.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17 16:17 Huawei Xie
2015-09-22  8:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-09-22  9:29   ` Xie, Huawei
2015-09-22 13:37     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-09-22 22:55       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-24 18:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2] virtio ring layout optimization and vectorization Huawei Xie

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