On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:07 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > 15/10/2019 09:51, Haiyue Wang: > > Some PMDs have more than one RX/TX burst paths, add the ethdev API > > that allows an application to retrieve the mode information about > > Rx/Tx packet burst such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology > > like AVX2. > > I missed this patch. I and Andrew, maintainers of ethdev, were not CC'ed. > Ferruh, I would expect to be Cc'ed and/or get a notification before merging. > Hopefully it is not too late to fix this API before releasing 19.11. > > I think the idea of getting infos from PMD internal mode is not bad. > But I strongly disagree with standardizing the names. More below.
> How can we imagine standardizing the PMD optimizations? > PMD developers are free to have as many burst implementation as they want. > If we want to report info about what is used, it can be only a free string. +1
