> -----Original Message----- > From: Yigit, Ferruh > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 9:01 PM > To: Li, Xiaoyun <[email protected]>; Xing, Beilei <[email protected]>; > Zhang, Qi Z <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Yang, Zhiyong <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; Richardson, Bruce <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] net/i40e: add interface to use latest vec path > > On 9/18/2018 3:22 AM, Xiaoyun Li wrote: > > For IA, the AVX2 vector path is only recommended to be used on later > > platforms (identified by AVX512 support, like SKL etc.) This is > > because performance benchmark shows downgrade when running AVX2 > vector > > path on early platform (BDW/HSW) in some cases. But we still observe > > perf gain with some real work loading. > > > > So this patch introduced the new devarg use-latest-supported-vec to > > force the driver always selecting the latest supported vec path. Then > > apps are able to take AVX2 path on early platforms. And this logic can > > be re-used if we will have AVX512 vec path in future. > > > > This patch only affects IA platforms. The selected vec path would be > > like the following: > > Without devarg/devarg = 0: > > Machine vPMD > > AVX512F AVX2 > > AVX2 SSE4.2 > > SSE4.2 SSE4.2 > > <SSE4.2 Not Supported > > > > With devarg = 1 > > Machine vPMD > > AVX512F AVX2 > > AVX2 AVX2 > > SSE4.2 SSE4.2 > > <SSE4.2 Not Supported > > > > Other platforms can also apply the same logic if necessary in future. > > > > Signed-off-by: Xiaoyun Li <[email protected]> > > --- > > v7: > > * Use uint_8 instead of bool type for struct member. > > v6: > > * Polish the doc and commit log. > > * Use rte_kvargs_process instead of directly kvlist internals. > > v5: > > * Simpify the rx set function. > > v4: > > * Polish the codes. > > v3: > > * Polish the doc and commit log. > > v2: > > * Correct the calling of the wrong function last time. > > * Fix seg fault bug. > > --- > > doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 8 ++ > > Doc is causing warning: > doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst:172: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. > > Except from that, > Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <[email protected]>
Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel. Thanks Qi
