From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Rybchenko Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ethdev: introduce Tx queue offloads API Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:46:15 +0300 Message-ID: <1fbd4168-7b19-1456-760e-92034d4635b4@solarflare.com> References: <20170910104827.11da9230@xeon-e3> <20170911062119.GA9342@jerin> <20170911080621.GA15867@jerin> <20170911090543.GA9965@jerin> <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB9772584F2497DC@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com> <20170912040107.GA8081@jerin> <20170912055137.GA24921@jerin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Ananyev, Konstantin" , Stephen Hemminger , Thomas Monjalon , "dev@dpdk.org" , "Zhang, Helin" , "Wu, Jingjing" To: Shahaf Shuler , Jerin Jacob Return-path: Received: from dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com [148.163.129.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF3529CA for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:46:23 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 09/12/2017 09:35 AM, Shahaf Shuler wrote: > Tuesday, September 12, 2017 8:52 AM, Jerin Jacob: >>> - The application can express it wants such optimization. >>> - It is global >>> >>> Currently it does not seems there is high demand for such flags from other >> PMDs. If such demand will raise, we can discuss again on how to expose it >> properly. >> >> It is not PMD specific. It is all about where it runs? it will applicable for any >> PMD that runs low end hardwares where it need SW based Tx buffer >> recycling(The NPU is different story as it has HW assisted mempool >> manager). > Maybe, but I don't see other PMD which use those flags. Do you aware to any plans to add such optimizations? > You are pushing for generic API which is currently used only by a single entity. http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/074907.html