From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] config files maintenance
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:43:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508851.EJxvAFadW3@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F35DEAC7BCE34641BA9FAC6BCA4A12E70A8B8482@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2015-07-31 15:39, Zhang, Helin:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > 2015-07-31 15:29, Zhang, Helin:
> > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > > > Can we remove i40e bulk alloc option?
> > >
> > > As the receiving functions are different for bulk_alloc or not, we need this flag.
> >
> > What brings the non bulk alloc function?
>
> Bulk-alloc means it will allocate mbufs in bulk, which was added before we supporting
> Vector PMD long long ago, to show the possible better performance.
> I think all was disabled by default, and later it is enabled by default for Linux.
Yes, I know that. My question was:
Why not removing the non bulk alloc Rx in i40e?
Who needs to disable I40E_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC?
I think you understand that the goal is remove some options and code
useless nowadays (maintenance stuff).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-31 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-31 15:08 Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-31 15:29 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-07-31 15:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-31 15:39 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-07-31 15:43 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-07-31 16:34 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-07-31 15:41 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-07-31 20:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-31 21:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] sync linux/bsd config options Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-31 21:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: fix offload config option name Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-31 21:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] config: enable same drivers options for linux and bsd Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-31 21:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] config: remove kni options for bsd Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-31 21:24 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-08-03 10:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] sync linux/bsd config options Thomas Monjalon
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