From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] compressdev: add feature flag to specify where processing is done Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:53:49 -0800 Message-ID: <20181119175349.2bd2fdd1@xeon-e3> References: <1542677988-3876-1-git-send-email-fiona.trahe@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, akhil.goyal@nxp.com, tomaszx.jozwiak@intel.com, shally.verma@caviumnetworks.com, ashish.gupta@caviumnetworks.com, lee.daly@intel.com To: Fiona Trahe Return-path: Received: from mail-pg1-f178.google.com (mail-pg1-f178.google.com [209.85.215.178]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36B12B92 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:53:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pg1-f178.google.com with SMTP id w7so144762pgp.13 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:53:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1542677988-3876-1-git-send-email-fiona.trahe@intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 01:39:48 +0000 Fiona Trahe wrote: > A new device feature flag, RTE_COMPDEV_FF_SW_OP_DONE_IN_DEQUEUE > is added. A PMD which processes operations using a software > acceleration engine should set this if the bulk of the > processing is done during the dequeue. It should leave it > cleared if the bulk of the processing is done during the > enqueue (default). > An application may find this useful for tuning. > > Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe What application? or is this "if we build it they will come?"