Hi Billy, > -----Original Message----- > From: Billy McFall [mailto:bmcf...@redhat.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 2:38 AM > To: thomas.monja...@6wind.com; Lu, Wenzhuo; olivier.m...@6wind.com > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Billy McFall > Subject: [PATCH v5 2/3] net/e1000: e1000 igb support to free consumed buffers > > Add support to the e1000 igb driver for the new API to force free consumed > buffers on Tx ring. e1000 igb driver does not implement a tx_rs_thresh to free > mbufs, it frees a slot in the ring as needed, so a new function needed to be > written. There's another question about this commit log. As we know tx_rs_thresh is not supported by igb. But I think it can be implemented. Your idea is to add an API, so APP can free the buffers explicitly. It's a different idea with threshold, right? Seems this log is a little misleading.
