[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/4] ethdev new offloads API

[Thomas Monjalon]

07/08/2017 12:54, Shahaf Shuler:
> The new API does not have an equivalent for the below Tx flags:
> 
> * ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOREFCOUNT
> * ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOMULTMEMP
> 
> The reason is that those flags are not to manage offloads, rather some
> guarantee from application on the way it uses mbufs, therefore could not be
> present as part of DEV_TX_OFFLOADS_*.
> Such flags are useful only for benchmarks, and therefore provide a non-realistic    
> performance for DPDK customers using simple benchmarks for evaluation.
> Leveraging the work being done in this series to clean up those flags.

I agree that these flags are not offload but benchmark configuration.
They should be deprecated.