[dpdk-dev] [RFC 19.11 1/2] ethdev: make DPDK core functions non-inline

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 08:25:34AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:49:49 +0200
> Marcin Zapolski <marcinx.a.zapolski at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Make rte_eth_rx_burst, rte_eth_tx_burst and other static inline ethdev
> > functions not inline. They are referencing DPDK internal structures and
> > inlining forces those structures to be exposed to user applications.
> > 
> > In internal testing with i40e NICs a performance drop of about 2% was
> > observed with testpmd.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marcin Zapolski <marcinx.a.zapolski at intel.com>
> 
> Sorry 2% matters.

Note that this is with testpmd. Are there many apps out there where a 2%
drop in IO cost would be noticable?