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From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
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Hi Oliver,

>=20
> As this change would impact the core of DPDK, I think it would be
> interesting to list some representative use-cases in order to evaluate
> the cost of each solution. This will also help for future modifications,
> and could be included in a sort of non-regression test?
>=20

I think this is a very good idea.
Let's create a list of such test-cases.  =20
Two obvious apps from our side would probably be:
- test-pmd iofwd mode
- l3fwd
What else should we add here?
Konstantin