[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/3] net/e1000: e1000 igb support to free consumed buffers

[Lu, Wenzhuo]

Hi Billy,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Billy McFall [mailto:bmcfall at redhat.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 2:38 AM
> To: thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com; Lu, Wenzhuo; olivier.matz at 6wind.com
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Billy McFall
> Subject: [PATCH v5 2/3] net/e1000: e1000 igb support to free consumed buffers
> 
> Add support to the e1000 igb driver for the new API to force free consumed
> buffers on Tx ring. e1000 igb driver does not implement a tx_rs_thresh to free
> mbufs, it frees a slot in the ring as needed, so a new function needed to be
> written.
There's another question about this commit log. As we know tx_rs_thresh is not supported by igb. But I think it can be implemented.
Your idea is to add an API, so APP can free the buffers explicitly.  It's a different idea with threshold, right? Seems this log is a little misleading.