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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [ [PATCH v2] 01/13] virtio: Introduce config
 RTE_VIRTIO_INC_VECTOR
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:24:35 -0800
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:32:38 +0530
Santosh Shukla <sshukla@mvista.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Santosh Shukla <sshukla@mvista.com> wrote:
> > virtio_recv_pkts_vec and other virtio vector friend apis are written for sse/avx
> > instructions. For arm64 in particular, virtio vector implementation does not
> > exist(todo).
> >
> > So virtio pmd driver wont build for targets like i686, arm64.  By making
> > RTE_VIRTIO_INC_VECTOR=n, Driver can build for non-sse/avx targets and will work
> > in non-vectored virtio mode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <sshukla@mvista.com>
> > ---
> 
> Ping?
> 
> any review  / comment on this patch much appreciated. Thanks

The patches I posted (and were ignored by Intel) to support indirect
and any layout should have much bigger performance gain than all this
low level SSE bit twiddling.