[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] i40e: workaround for X710 performance issues

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi Helin,

First, thank you and Jing for the excellent review process.

2014-12-16 16:23, Helin Zhang:
> On X710, performance number is far from the expectation on recent
> firmware versions. The fix for this issue may not be integrated in
> the following firmware version. So the workaround in software driver
> is needed. It needs to modify the initial values of 3 internal only
> registers. Note that the workaround can be removed when it is fixed
> in firmware in the future.

I want to understand something here. You say the workaround can be removed
when firmware will be fixed. But I suppose that some NICs won't be updated
so the workaround will be needed forever?

-- 
Thomas