[PATCH v3 1/2] net/i40e: replace put function

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/17/2023 7:52 AM, Morten Brørup wrote:
>> From: Lu, Wenzhuo [mailto:wenzhuo.lu at intel.com]
>> Sent: Friday, 17 February 2023 03.03
>>
>> Hi Kamalakshitha,
>>
>>> From: Kamalakshitha Aligeri <kamalakshitha.aligeri at arm.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 2:18 AM
>>>
>>> Integrated zero-copy put API in mempool cache in i40e PMD.
>>> On Ampere Altra server, l3fwd single core's performance improves by
>> 5% with
>>> the new API
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kamalakshitha Aligeri <kamalakshitha.aligeri at arm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Feifei Wang <feifei.wang2 at arm.com>
>> We're trying to check the performance improvement. But met compile
>> failure. The same as CI reported, http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-
>> report/2023-February/353245.html.
> 
> It depends on this patch:
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230213122437.122858-1-mb@smartsharesystems.com/
> 
> Does anyone know how to formally add such a dependency to the patch description, so the CI can understand it?
> 

Hi Morten,

This has been discussed in the past and a syntax defined:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/patches.html#patch-dependencies

But the problem is CI not implemented it yet, it was in the CI backlog
last time I remember but I don't know current status. @Aaron may know.