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Subject: Re: [ [PATCH v2] 01/13] virtio: Introduce config
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:31:54 +0800
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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

Sorry, I thought it was reviewed and got applied (and I just started to
review patches for virtio recently).

So, would you please send it out again? I will have a review and test ASAP.

	--yliu

> and any layout should have much bigger performance gain than all this
> low level SSE bit twiddling.