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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] net/mlx5: change indexing for Tx SW ring
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:20:35 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 04:03:59PM -0700, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> For Tx SW ring (txq->elts[]), indexes are kept and used in
> txq->elts_head/tail. Because of this, one entry must always be left unused
> and it also makes code complex. Changed to store counters instead of
> indexes in order to make the code simpler and to reduce a few calculations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>

Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>

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