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The i40e NIC supports two flavors of HW descriptors, 16 and 32 byte. The latter has, obviously, room for more offloading information. However, the only fields of the 32B HW descriptor that is being used by the driver, is also available in the 16B descriptor. In other words; Reading and writing 32 bytes instead of 16 byte is a waste of bus bandwidth. This commit starts using 16 byte descriptors instead of 32 byte descriptors. For AF_XDP the rx_drop benchmark was improved by 2%. Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.