[PATCH] doc: clarify mempool striding optimisation on Arm
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Jul 17 04:25:41 CEST 2024
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:44:20 +0100
Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-preston at foss.arm.com> wrote:
> The mempool memory channel striding optimisation is not necessary on
> Arm platforms.
> Update the Programmer's Guide's mempool section to clarify this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-preston at foss.arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Wathsala Vithanage <wathsala.vithanage at arm.com>
> ---
The whole memory channels argument has been a problem from day 0 of DPDK.
There is no good way to find it from the OS, and it was never clear how much impact
it had anyway. It would simplify users experience if it was deprecated or at least
not required and rarely used.
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