The default flow engine is Verbs flow engine, for legacy reasons.
This patch changes the default to DV flow engine (dv_flow_en = 1).
Documentation is updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dek...@mellanox.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 6 +++---
drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index fc7de52..bf01ea1 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -203,9 +203,9 @@ Limitations
- LRO:
- - Requires DevX to be enabled.
+ - Requires DevX and DV flow to be enabled.
- KEEP_CRC offload cannot be supported with LRO.
- - The first mbuf length, without head-room, must be big enough to include
the
+ - The first mbuf length, without head-room, must be big enough to include the
TCP header (122B).
Statistics
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ Run-time configuration
A nonzero value enables the DV flow steering assuming it is supported
by the driver.
- Disabled by default.
+ Enabled by default if supported.
- ``dv_esw_en`` parameter [int]
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
index 571e766..ad3288d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
@@ -2723,6 +2723,7 @@ struct mlx5_dev_spawn_data {
.min_rxqs_num = MLX5_MPRQ_MIN_RXQS,
},
.dv_esw_en = 1,
+ .dv_flow_en = 1,
};
/* Device specific configuration. */
switch (pci_dev->id.device_id) {
--
1.8.3.1
