[PATCH v2 0/5] Remove SSE Rx/Tx paths from some Intel drivers

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 02:32:18PM +0000, Ciara Loftus wrote:
> This patch removes the SSE Rx and Tx paths from the i40e, iavf and ice
> drivers. Each of these drivers have faster vector paths (AVX2 and
> AVX-512) which have feature parity with the SSE paths. In
> environments where AVX2 or AVX-512 are not supported, the scalar path
> will still be used, which also has feature parity.
> 
> This series is intended for the next-net-intel tree.
> 
> v2:
> * Remove deprecation notice
> * Provide more detailed explanation in the release notes.
> * Usage of function type enum instead of pkt burst pointer in the
> supported_ptypes_get functions (simplify the logic by removing #ifdefs)
> * More renaming in iavf to remove all mentions of SSE
> * Removal of IAVF_REL_MBUFS_AVX512_VEC enum value as it's not used
> 
> Ciara Loftus (5):
>   net/i40e: remove SSE vector path
>   net/iavf: remove SSE vector path
>   net/ice: remove SSE vector path
>   doc: add release note entry for SSE removal
>   doc: remove deprecation notice of SSE in some Intel drivers
> 
Series-acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Patchset applied to dpdk-next-net-intel, with the last two doc patches
squashed into the code ones.

/Bruce