30/06/2017 14:27, Olivier Matz: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:27:51 +0530, Jerin Jacob > <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is no need for initializing the complete > > packet buffer with zero as the packet data area will be > > overwritten by the NIC Rx HW anyway. > > > > The testpmd configures the packet mempool > > with around 180k buffers with > > 2176B size. In existing scheme, the init routine > > needs to memset around ~370MB vs the proposed scheme > > requires only around ~22MB on 128B cache aligned system. > > > > Useful in running DPDK in HW simulators/emulators, > > where millions of cycles have an impact on boot time. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Olivier Matz <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks
