[dpdk-dev] config files maintenance

Zhang, Helin helin.zhang at intel.com
Fri Jul 31 17:39:40 CEST 2015



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 8:31 AM
> To: Zhang, Helin
> Cc: Ananyev, Konstantin; Richardson, Bruce; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: config files maintenance
> 
> 2015-07-31 15:29, Zhang, Helin:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> > > Can we remove i40e bulk alloc option?
> >
> > As the receiving functions are different for bulk_alloc or not, we need this flag.
> 
> What brings the non bulk alloc function?
Bulk-alloc means it will allocate mbufs in bulk, which was added before we supporting
Vector PMD long long ago, to show the possible better performance.
I think all was disabled by default, and later it is enabled by default for Linux.

> Why is it disabled for BSD?
So now the question is can it be enabled for BSD by default, right?
I guess yes, but others may give the accurate answer.

Regards,
Helin



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