> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 8:31 AM > To: Zhang, Helin > Cc: Ananyev, Konstantin; Richardson, Bruce; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: config files maintenance > > 2015-07-31 15:29, Zhang, Helin: > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > > > Can we remove i40e bulk alloc option? > > > > As the receiving functions are different for bulk_alloc or not, we need > > this flag. > > What brings the non bulk alloc function? Bulk-alloc means it will allocate mbufs in bulk, which was added before we supporting Vector PMD long long ago, to show the possible better performance. I think all was disabled by default, and later it is enabled by default for Linux.
> Why is it disabled for BSD? So now the question is can it be enabled for BSD by default, right? I guess yes, but others may give the accurate answer. Regards, Helin
