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

[Aaron Conole]

Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com> writes:

>> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit at amd.com]
>> Sent: Friday, 17 February 2023 11.05
>> 
>> 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 at 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
>
> So for this patch, Kamalakshitha should add the tag:
>
> Depends-on: series-26984 ("[v9] mempool cache: add zero-copy get and put functions")

I think just:

Depends-on: series-26984

In the first patch, or cover letter.  That said, I did a quick test and
the 0day bot should support it now.

>> 
>> 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.