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From: "Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	"Jayakumar, Muthurajan" <muthurajan.jayakumar@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] examples: remove l3fwd-vf example
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:54:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9BB6961774997848B5B42BEC655768F8C68160@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1689423.VMbrg9M0mP@xps13>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:28 PM
> To: Jayakumar, Muthurajan
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] examples: remove l3fwd-vf example
> 
> 2015-07-14 08:20, Jayakumar, Muthurajan:
> > Can you please share as what is the benefit of removing l3fwd-vf example?
> > Customers have been using this very much.
> > Please let me know what is the disadvantage of keeping l3fwd-vf.
> 
> What is the benefit of keeping an example which can be replaced?
> 
> "Because VF multi-queues can be supported, l3fwd can run on vf."
> 
> Removing some code is a nice goal from a maintenance point of view.

Yes, the l3fwd-vf example is almost the same as l3fwd, it is just used when VF can only support one queue.
Because VF multi-queues is supported, l3fwd running on vf is a better choice. 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-15  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-14  7:57 Jingjing Wu
2015-07-14  8:20 ` Jayakumar, Muthurajan
2015-07-14  8:28   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-15  0:54     ` Wu, Jingjing [this message]
2015-07-14 14:50 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-07-22 10:30   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-22 14:51     ` Zhang, Helin
2015-07-22 15:01       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-08-03 16:54       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-08-03 17:02         ` Zhang, Helin
2015-08-03 17:08           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-08-04 17:06       ` Qiu, Michael
2015-08-04 17:12         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-04-20 10:46           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-20 11:16             ` Ananyev, Konstantin

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