RE: Intel FAST_FREE offload question

> 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

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