config: enable i40e vector driver

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>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>

diff --git a/config/common_base b/config/common_base
index d98a82c..abd6a64 100644 (file)
--- a/config/common_base
+++ b/config/common_base
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ 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 811bd02..79d76e1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -360,6 +360,12 @@ Drivers
   under stress with traffic, which might result in application launch
   failure.
 
+* **i40e: Enabled 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.
+
 * **mlx5: Fixed possible crash during initialization.**
 
   A crash could occur when failing to allocate private device context.