[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] doc: add mbuf reorg to PMD todo list
Olivier Matz
olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Wed Jan 3 15:00:09 CET 2018
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 09:07:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:42:37 +0000
> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > To track modification:
> > 8f094a9ac5d7 ("mbuf: set mbuf fields while in pool")
> >
> > Proposed deadline for PMDs is v18.02
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> > ---
> > doc/guides/nics/todo.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst b/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
> > index 874811ad5..b408fc691 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
> > @@ -36,8 +36,17 @@ This is the list for tracking required PMD changes triggered by library modifica
> >
> > .. table:: PMDs internal TODO list
> >
> > - +------+------+----------+----------------+------+
> > - | TODO | PMDs | Deadline | Related Commit | Note |
> > - +======+======+==========+================+======+
> > - | | | | | |
> > - +------+------+----------+----------------+------+
> > + +-------------------+--------------------------------+----------+----------------+-----------------------------------+
> > + | TODO | PMDs | Deadline | Related Commit | Note |
> > + +===================+================================+==========+================+===================================+
> > + | mbuf organisation | | af_packet, ark, avp, bnx2x, | v18.02 | 8f094a9ac5d7 | Remove unnecessary mbuf field |
> > + | | | bnxt, bonding, cxgbe, dpaa, | | | initialization. |
> > + | | | dpaa2, e1000, ena, | | | |
> > + | | | failsafe, fm10k, | | | |
> > + | | | kni, mlx4, | | | |
> > + | | | mrvl, nfp, octeontx, | | | |
> > + | | | pcap, qede, ring, sfc, | | | |
> > + | | | softnic, szedata2, tap, | | | |
> > + | | | thunderx, vhost, | | | |
> > + | | | vmxnet3 | | | |
> > + +-------------------+--------------------------------+----------+----------------+-----------------------------------+
>
> NAK
>
> This open source, if the fix is trivial please just fix all the drivers directly now.
> These TODO lists never get done.
The fix is not that trivial, especially for vector PMDs.
It can also impact performance.
It looks dangerous for me to blindly do a patch without any hardware to
do the test.
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