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> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:04:59 +0000
> <eagostini@nvidia.com> wrote:
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> > From: Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
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> > This patch introduces GPU memory in testpmd through the gpudev library.
> > Testpmd can be used for network benchmarks when using GPU memory
> > instead of regular CPU memory to send and receive packets.
> > This option is currently limited to iofwd engine to ensure
> > no workload is applied on packets not accessible from the CPU.
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> > The options chose is --mbuf-size so buffer split feature across
> > different mempools can be enabled.
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> > Signed-off-by: Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
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> Won't this create a hard dependency of test-pmd on gpudev?
> I thought gpudev was supposed to be optional

Sure, let me submit another patch to make it optional