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From: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
To: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@linaro.org>, "Zhang, Helin"
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Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: avoid unnessary break when checking
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: avoid unnessary break when checking
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HI Jianbo,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jianbo Liu
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 10:26 PM
> To: Zhang, Helin; Ananyev, Konstantin; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Jianbo Liu
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: avoid unnessary break when checking at=
 the
> tail of rx hwring
>=20
> When checking rx ring queue, it's possible that loop will break at the ta=
il while
> there are packets still in the queue header.
Would you like to give more details about in what scenario this issue will =
be hit? Thanks.