[PATCH v3 1/3] testpmd: Do not enable mbuf fast release TX offload by default

[Ivan Malov]

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Aug 2025, Morten Brørup wrote:

>> From: fengchengwen [mailto:fengchengwen at huawei.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2025 02.59
>>
>> On 8/4/2025 3:42 AM, Morten Brørup wrote:
>>> Enabling some offload by default may conflict with a manually
>> configured
>>> offload.
>>> Specifically, the mbuf fast release TX offload, which conflicts with
>> multi
>>> segment packet TX offload, was enabled by default.
>>> Therefore, mbuf fast release TX offload (the only TX offload which was
>>> enabled by default) is not enabled by default anymore.
>>
>> This may impact default performance, many vendor performance report has
>> testpmd iofwd or macfwd case.
>
> Yes.
>
> IMO, any optimizations, mbuf-fast-free or mbuf-recycle, must be explicitly enabled, and documented in the performance reports when used.

Good point.

Thank you.

> Otherwise the performance reports give a false impression of higher performance, which is only available under certain circumstances.
> I have complained about this before.
> Which is also why mbuf-recycle must be explicitly enabled.
> With this patch, the same finally applies to mbuf-fast-free too.
> I could add a Fixes tag, but I think it is better to categorize this patch as an improvement rather than a bug fix.
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