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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] vhost: add a flag to enable Tx zero copy
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:55:48 +0800
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 09:00:14AM +0000, Xu, Qian Q wrote:
> Just curious about the naming: vhost USER TX Zero copy. In fact, it's Vhost RX zero-copy
> For virtio, it's Virtio TX zero-copy. So, I wonder why we call it as Vhost TX ZERO-COPY, 
> Any comments? 

It's just that "Tx zero copy" looks more nature to me (yes, I took the
name from the virtio point of view).

Besides that, naming it to "vhost Rx zero copy" would be a little
weird, based on we have functions like "virtio_dev_rx" in the enqueue
path while here we just touch dequeue path.

OTOH, I seldome say "vhost-user Tx zero copy"; I normally mention it
as "Tx zero copy", without mentioning "vhost-user". For the flag
RTE_VHOST_USER_TX_ZERO_COPY, all vhost-user flags start with "RTE_VHOST_USER_"
prefix.

	--yliu