[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2]doc:Add performance test guide about how to get DPDK high perf on Intel platform

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi,

2015-09-16 02:45, Xu, Qian Q:
> Thomas
> Could you help check my doc patch, and let me know anything needed for
> the merge? I think it would be very helpful for the users to get high
> performance with step-by-step guide. Thx.

Yes it is useful.
John and Siobhan are the maintainers for the doc.

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/perf_test_guide/index.rst

Why creating a new guide?
Can it be included as a chapter of the Linux user guide?

> +    Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

The dates seem wrong.

> +This document is a step-by-step guide about how to get high performance with DPDK on Intel's platform and NICs.

OK to focus on Intel platform (must be reflected in the file name),
but it should be open to other NICs.
It was already commented in previous version:
	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-August/022704.html

> +This document is a step-by-step guide for getting high DPDK performance with Intel's platform and NICs. For other NICs, e.g. Chelsio, Cisco, Mellanox, the Intel platform/CPU settings could be very similar, but the specific NIC's configurations may differ from each vendor.

Not needed
If something is needed for other NICs, other people will add it.

> +1. Get an high end Intel® NIC,

Intel can be removed here.

> e.g: Intel® XL710. Note: Get an high end NIC means getting a high packet rate, since currently 1G and 10G NICs can achieve line rate easily, but 40G NIC would be more complicated, so take it as an example. 

Yes the Intel NIC is an example.