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From: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@linaro.org>
To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	"viktorin@rehivetech.com" <viktorin@rehivetech.com>,
	"jianbo.liu@linaro.org" <jianbo.liu@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: make rearm_data address naturally aligned
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:30:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573F2D99.9080802@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB97725836B5AB67@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com>

Hi,

On 19/05/16 13:18, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
> I wonder does anyone really use mbuf port field?
> My though was - could we to drop it completely?

There are a few example codes which are reading the port field. Although 
they can retain this metadata in the private area of the mbuf, right 
after receiving, it would cause them a minor perf drop to do it 
separately. I'm not sure which one is more important: this perf drop of 
the gain everyone else has by relieving the drivers to do it.

Zoli

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-20 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-18 13:57 Jerin Jacob
2016-05-18 16:43 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-18 18:50   ` Jerin Jacob
2016-05-19  8:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-19 11:54       ` Jan Viktorin
2016-05-19 12:18       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-05-19 13:35         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-05-19 15:50           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-23 11:19             ` Olivier Matz
2016-07-04 12:45               ` Jerin Jacob
2016-07-04 12:58                 ` Olivier MATZ
2016-05-20 15:30         ` Zoltan Kiss [this message]

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