Write combining (WC) increases NIC performance by making better utilization of PCI bus. ENA PMD may make usage of this feature.
To enable it load igb_uio driver with wc_activate set to 1. Signed-off-by: Rafal Kozik <r...@semihalf.com> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c index 9ae73e3..1870edf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ena/ena_ethdev.c @@ -2210,7 +2210,8 @@ static int eth_ena_pci_remove(struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev) static struct rte_pci_driver rte_ena_pmd = { .id_table = pci_id_ena_map, - .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC, + .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC | + RTE_PCI_DRV_WC_ACTIVATE, .probe = eth_ena_pci_probe, .remove = eth_ena_pci_remove, }; -- 2.7.4