From: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com, walter.e.gilmore@intel.com,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: add note on increased ring size to release notes
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 12:47:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518094078-21289-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> (raw)
Added note on the increased ring size in testpmd and the sample
applications to the release note.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
index 3206796..533c649 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
@@ -232,6 +232,14 @@ New Features
and subsequent releases until such time as it's deprecation is announced.
+* **Increased default Rx and Tx ring size in sample applications.**
+
+ Increased the default ``RX_RING_SIZE`` and ``TX_RING_SIZE`` to 1024 entries
+ in testpmd and the sample applications to give better performance in the
+ general case. The user should experiment with various Rx and Tx ring sizes
+ for their specific application to get best performance.
+
+
API Changes
-----------
--
2.7.5
next reply other threads:[~2018-02-08 12:48 UTC|newest]
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2018-02-08 12:47 John McNamara [this message]
2018-02-08 13:08 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-02-08 22:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
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