RE: Intel FAST_FREE offload question

2025-02-21 Thread Morten Brørup
> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richard...@intel.com] > Sent: Friday, 21 February 2025 18.10 > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 05:58:21PM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote: > > Intel NIC folks, > > > > Why do the Intel network drivers, when using > > RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MBUF_FAST_FREE, fall back to norma

Re: Intel FAST_FREE offload question

2025-02-21 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 05:58:21PM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote: > Intel NIC folks, > > Why do the Intel network drivers, when using > RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MBUF_FAST_FREE, fall back to normal freeing when the > mempool cache is empty (cache->len == 0)? It doesn't make sense to me. > > Example: > http

Intel FAST_FREE offload question

2025-02-21 Thread Morten Brørup
Intel NIC folks, Why do the Intel network drivers, when using RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MBUF_FAST_FREE, fall back to normal freeing when the mempool cache is empty (cache->len == 0)? It doesn't make sense to me. Example: https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h#n146 Med venlig hil