On 12/19/2016 4:13 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > Having those modulo operations implies costly instructions execution, > what can be avoided with conditionals and unlikely clauses. > > This change makes the software ring read and write indexes to be now > always within the ring size which has to be handled properly. The main > problem is when write pointer wraps and being less than the read pointer. > This happened before, but just with indexes type size (uint32_t) wrapping, > and in that case the processor does the right thing no requiring special > hanling by software. > > This work has also led to discovering redundant pointers in the driver, > which have been removed. > > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.luc...@netronome.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
