[dpdk-users] Beginners question: rte_eth_tx_burst, rte_mbuf access synchronization

[Anupam Kapoor]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Philipp Beyer <pbeyer at voipfuture.com>
wrote:

> Basically, I need to send the same packet over a single interface, over an
> over again, with single bytes changed each time.
> I use rte_eth_tx_burst to send 16 packets at once. As I want to re-use the
> same buffers in a very simple way, I just increment the refcnt
> accordingly.
>

just throwing it out there: have you considered a trivial scheme of
repeatedly invoking 'rte_eth_tx_burst(...)'​ till a value less than
'nb_pkts' is returned. once you reach that state, then the reuse can
happen...

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kind regards
anupam
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