Those patches implement flow aging for mlx5 driver. First patch is to modify the current additional memory allocation for counter, so that it's easy to get every counter additional memory location by using offsetting. Second patch implements aging check and age-out event callback mechanism for mlx5 driver.
Bill Zhou (2): net/mlx5: modify ext-counter memory allocation net/mlx5: support flow aging doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst | 1 + drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 86 +++--- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h | 63 ++++- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c | 201 ++++++++++++-- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.h | 16 +- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c | 370 +++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c | 16 +- 7 files changed, 626 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-) -- 2.21.0
