07/08/2017 12:54, Shahaf Shuler: > The new API does not have an equivalent for the below Tx flags: > > * ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOREFCOUNT > * ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOMULTMEMP > > The reason is that those flags are not to manage offloads, rather some > guarantee from application on the way it uses mbufs, therefore could not be > present as part of DEV_TX_OFFLOADS_*. > Such flags are useful only for benchmarks, and therefore provide a > non-realistic > performance for DPDK customers using simple benchmarks for evaluation. > Leveraging the work being done in this series to clean up those flags.
I agree that these flags are not offload but benchmark configuration. They should be deprecated.
