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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: make AVX and AVX512 configurable
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:07:16 +0800
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 07:00:14PM -0400, Zhihong Wang wrote:
> Making AVX and AVX512 configurable is useful for performance and power
> testing.
> 
> The similar kernel patch at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9618883/.
> 
> AVX512 support like in rte_memcpy has been in DPDK since 16.04, but it's
> still unproven in rich use cases in hardware. Therefore it's marked as
> experimental for now, will enable it after enough field test and possible
> optimization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>

	--yliu