Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] virtio: add neon support

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 03:53:22PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 04:46:38PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > Added neon based Rx vector implementation.
> > Selection of the new handler based neon availability at runtime.
> > Updated the release notes and MAINTAINERS file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS                                  |   1 +
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst       |   2 +
> >  drivers/net/virtio/Makefile                  |   2 +
> >  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c             |   3 +
> >  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple_neon.c | 235 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  5 files changed, 243 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple_neon.c
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index a59191e..ab04cee 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ F: lib/librte_acl/acl_run_neon.*
> >  F: lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm_neon.h
> >  F: lib/librte_hash/rte*_arm64.h
> >  F: drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_neon.c
> > +F: drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple_neon.c
> >  
> >  EZchip TILE-Gx
> >  M: Zhigang Lu <zlu@ezchip.com>
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
> > index 9e2a817..3a5add5 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
> 
> This series basically looks good to me, but I don't think we can make it
> for v16.07: you missed v1 deadline; it's also too late: rc1 was already out.

OK. But I thought, Thomas hasn't pulled the changes from dpdk-next-virtio.

Even if didn't make it for v16.07, I would suggest you to consider taking
the changes to dpdk-next-virtio as this change involves file restructuring
(Will have issue with re-basing in future) without having any functional impact.


> 
> 	--yliu
> 
> > @@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ New Features
> >    section of the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document.
> >  
> >  
> > +* **Virtio NEON support for ARM.**
> > +
> >  Resolved Issues
> >  ---------------
> >