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    "id": 66312,
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    "date": "2020-03-06T05:04:24",
    "name": "[v1,0/3] i40e vPMD optimization on aarch64",
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        "name": "Gavin Hu",
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            "date": "2020-03-06T05:04:24",
            "name": "i40e vPMD optimization on aarch64",
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        "Received": [
            "from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124])\n\tby inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70939A056A;\n\tFri,  6 Mar 2020 06:05:07 +0100 (CET)",
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        ],
        "From": "Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>",
        "To": "dev@dpdk.org",
        "Cc": "nd@arm.com, david.marchand@redhat.com, thomas@monjalon.net,\n jerinj@marvell.com, xiaolong.ye@intel.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com,\n ruifeng.wang@arm.com, phil.yang@arm.com, joyce.kong@arm.com,\n steve.capper@arm.com",
        "Date": "Fri,  6 Mar 2020 13:04:24 +0800",
        "Message-Id": "<20200306050427.66114-1-gavin.hu@arm.com>",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] i40e vPMD optimization on aarch64",
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    },
    "content": "This series is to optimize the i40e vPMD performance on aarch64.\n\nThe patches were benchmarked by running the following command on Marvell\nThunderX2 and Arm N1SDP and showed positive performance results.\n\nsudo ./build/app/testpmd -l 1,3 -w 0001:01:00.0 -w 0001:01:00.1\n--master-lcore 1 -- -i --rxq=4 --txq=4 --nb-cores=1 --nb-ports=2 -a\n\nGavin Hu (3):\n  net/i40e: relax barrier in the Tx fastpath of vPMD\n  net/i40e: restrict pointer aliasing for neon vec\n  net/i40e: auto-vectorization to speed up Tx free\n\n drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h |  5 +++++\n drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_neon.c   | 24 +++++++++++++-----------\n 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)"
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