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From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH 1/2] i40e: support floating VEB config
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:53:42 +0100
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On 21/01/2016 08:29, David Marchand wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Zhe Tao <zhe.tao@intel.com> wrote:
>> Add the new floating related argument option in the EAL.
>> using this parameter, all the samples can decide whether to use legacy VEB/VEPA,
>>   or floating VEB.
>
> Not familiar with this.
> Can you confirm this stuff make sense for anything but i40e ?

+1 with David. On Linux kernel, only i40e includes this feature.