[ovs-dev] [PATCH v10 4/5] docs: Describe output packet batching in DPDK guide.

[Jan Scheurich]

> > I still find the way DPDK-related topics are distributed over the various documentation files rather confusing:
> > ./Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> > ./Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
> > ./Documentation/topics/dpdk/index.rst
> > ./Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> > ./Documentation/topics/dpdk/ring.rst
> >
> > Why does information like this go into intro/install/dpdk.rst rather than howto/dpdk.rst?
> 
> Oh.. It's hard to say. Initially, I wanted to place this description near to
> "Exact Match Cache" description as it's the feature of the same level (somehow).
> 
> I don't like current documentation too. It's definitely should be merged or re-splitted
> somehow. Sometimes it's really hard to find what you're looking for in all these docs.
> And it's even harder when you're trying to use compiled documentation.
> 
> > But cleaning this up is probably another exercise....
> 
> Yes. That's should be a separate change.

So let's put that restructuring up as a work item for 2.10 and discuss in the OVS-DPDK community meeting what to aim for and how to do it.

/Jan