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[dpdk-dev,v3,2/2] config: enable vector driver by default

Message ID 1457589038-25739-3-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Jianfeng Tan March 10, 2016, 5:50 a.m. UTC 
  Previously, vector driver is not the first (default) choice for i40e,
as it cannot fill packet type info for l3fwd to work well. Now there
is an option for l3fwd to analysis packet type softly. So enable it
by default.

Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
---
 config/common_base                     | 2 +-
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/config/common_base b/config/common_base
index c73f71a..e6117b3 100644
--- a/config/common_base
+++ b/config/common_base
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@  CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_DEBUG_TX=n
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_DEBUG_TX_FREE=n
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_DEBUG_DRIVER=n
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC=y
-CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR=n
+CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR=y
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_RX_OLFLAGS_ENABLE=y
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_16BYTE_RX_DESC=n
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_QUEUE_NUM_PER_PF=64
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
index f0bd3cb..19913b1 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@  Drivers
   This made impossible the creation of more than one aesni_mb device
   from command line.
 
+* **i40e: enable vector driver by default.**
+
+  Previously, vector driver is disabled by default as it cannot fill packet type
+  info for l3fwd to work well. Now there is an option for l3fwd to analysis packet
+  type softly, so enable vector driver by default.
 
 Libraries
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