Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Jiawei(Jonny) Wang <jiaw...@nvidia.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 3:01 PM > To: Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad > <ma...@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <or...@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas > Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com> > Subject: [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: optimize the device spawn time with > representors > > During the device spawn process, mlx5 PMD queried the available flow > priorities by calling mlx5_flow_discover_priorities, queried > if the DR drop action was supported on the root table by calling > the mlx5_flow_discover_dr_action_support routine, and queried the > availability of metadata register C by calling mlx5_flow_discover_mreg_c. > > These functions created the test flows to get the supported fields, and > at the end destroyed the test flows. The test flows in the first two > functions was created on the root table. > If the device was spawned with multiple representors, these test flows > were created and destroyed on each representor as well. The above > operations took a significant amount of init time during the device spawn. > > This patch optimizes the device discover functions, if there is > the device with multiple representors (VF/SF) being spawned, > the priority and drop action and metadata register support check can be > done only ones and check results can be shared for all representors. > > Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <jiaw...@nvidia.com> > Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com> > --- > v2: Fix the CI warning > > --- > drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++--------- > drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h | 10 ++++++--- > drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c | 31 ++++++++++++++-------------- > drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c | 4 ++-- > drivers/net/mlx5/windows/mlx5_os.c | 12 ++++++----- > 5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) >
Patch rebased and applied to next-net-mlx, Kindest regards, Raslan Darawsheh
