Traditionally, only a single buffer pool per port
(or, per-port-per-socket) is created in l3fwd application.
If separate pools are created per-port, it might lead to gain in
performance as packet alloc/dealloc requests would be isolated
across ports (and their corresponding lcores).
This patch adds an argument '--per-port-pool' to the l3fwd application.
By default, old mode of single pool per port (split on sockets) is
active.
L3fwd user guide is also updated by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
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