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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen-OTpzqLSitTUnbdJkjeBofR2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have dpdk running with no
 dependency on a nic ?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:41:50 -0800
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:49:47 +0200
jigsaw <jigsaw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Have you tried link time optimization on DPDK application? Does it
> decrease the I-cache miss rate evidently?
> 
> thx &
> rgds,
> -Qinglai
> 

We use link-time-optimization without any problem.
No big performance gain, but I really don't think all the inlining of big
functions is necessary.