[dpdk-dev] [ [PATCH v2] 01/13] virtio: Introduce config RTE_VIRTIO_INC_VECTOR

[Santosh Shukla]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:32:38 +0530
> Santosh Shukla <sshukla at mvista.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Santosh Shukla <sshukla at mvista.com> wrote:
>> > virtio_recv_pkts_vec and other virtio vector friend apis are written for sse/avx
>> > instructions. For arm64 in particular, virtio vector implementation does not
>> > exist(todo).
>> >
>> > So virtio pmd driver wont build for targets like i686, arm64.  By making
>> > RTE_VIRTIO_INC_VECTOR=n, Driver can build for non-sse/avx targets and will work
>> > in non-vectored virtio mode.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <sshukla at mvista.com>
>> > ---
>>
>> Ping?
>>
>> any review  / comment on this patch much appreciated. Thanks
>
> The patches I posted (and were ignored by Intel) to support indirect
> and any layout should have much bigger performance gain than all this
> low level SSE bit twiddling.
>

I little confused - do we care for this patch?