> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments > > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:04:59 +0000 > <eagost...@nvidia.com> wrote: > > > From: Elena Agostini <eagost...@nvidia.com> > > > > This patch introduces GPU memory in testpmd through the gpudev library. > > Testpmd can be used for network benchmarks when using GPU memory > > instead of regular CPU memory to send and receive packets. > > This option is currently limited to iofwd engine to ensure > > no workload is applied on packets not accessible from the CPU. > > > > The options chose is --mbuf-size so buffer split feature across > > different mempools can be enabled. > > > > Signed-off-by: Elena Agostini <eagost...@nvidia.com> > > Won't this create a hard dependency of test-pmd on gpudev? > I thought gpudev was supposed to be optional
Sure, let me submit another patch to make it optional
