[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] improve mlx4 Tx performance

[Matan Azrad]

This series improves mlx4 Tx performance and fix and clean some Tx code. 
1. 10% MPPS improvement for 1 queue, 1 core, 64B packets, txonly mode.
2. 20% MPPS improvement for 1 queue, 1 core, 32B*4(segs) packets, txonly mode.

V2:
Add missed function descriptions.
Accurate descriptions.
Change Tx descriptor alignment to be like Rx.
Move mlx4_fill_tx_data_seg to mlx4_rxtx.c and use rte_be32_t for byte count.
Change remain_size type to uin32_t.
Poisoning with memset.

Matan Azrad (8):
  net/mlx4: fix Tx packet drop application report
  net/mlx4: remove unnecessary Tx wraparound checks
  net/mlx4: remove restamping from Tx error path
  net/mlx4: optimize Tx multi-segment case
  net/mlx4: merge Tx queue rings management
  net/mlx4: mitigate Tx send entry size calculations
  net/mlx4: align Tx descriptors number
  net/mlx4: remove Tx completion elements counter

 drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_prm.h  |  20 +-
 drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_rxtx.c | 492 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_rxtx.h |   5 +-
 drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_txq.c  |  37 ++--
 4 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 275 deletions(-)

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