On 9/2/2017 2:20 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
On 2/6/2017 8:08 AM, David Hunt wrote:
Given that the packet distributor library improvements (1) will
not be in 17.02, I plan on doing some consolidation of the
API for burst operation for 17.05, merging the two api's into
one, with options for single or burst operation.
(1) http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/19911/
Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.h...@intel.com>
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and will be removed in 17.02.
It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions.
+* lib: distributor library API will be changed to incorporate a burst-
+ oriented API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create``
+ to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and
+ additional calls for ``rte_poll_pkt_burst`` and ``rte_return_pkt_burst``,
+ among others.
Should new APIs (rte_poll_pkt_burst & rte_return_pkt_burst) have
"rte_distributor_" name space? Apart from this:
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
Ferruh,
Thanks for the third Ack.
Thomas,
Would you prefer me to re-spin the patch after inserting
"_distributor" into
the two function names, or would you be so good as to do it during the
merge?
Regards,
Dave.
