On 7/17/15, 9:15 AM, "dev on behalf of Thomas Monjalon" <dev-bounces at dpdk.org on behalf of thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
>2015-07-16 19:49, Stephen Hemminger: >> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:52:09 +0000 >> "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi Stephen, >> > I don't think there's a conflict. The message just reminder us that >>we can adjust the values to achieve better performance. >> > I saw ixgbe and i40e also use 0 as the same default value. To my >>opinion, it's good to keep the same behavior. >> > Thanks. >> >> In my opnion, no application should have to make special case setup >> for each device type. Having to have a table that lists all the >>parameters >> for each device name is not supportable or scaleable. >> >> The DPDK started out as "lets do benchmarks fast" but as a production >> toolkit it needs to stop having this kind of thing. >> >> The message shows up to the end-user, who thinks it is a driver bug. >> The "us" is now real customers not DPDK developers. > >+1 to have better default values and less scary messages. +1 I agree we should have default values. The scary message is for debugging only in the best of cases and just wrong for the normal case. >
