On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:54:35 +0200 Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com> wrote:
> Mellanox OFED 3.1 [1] comes with improved APIs that Mellanox ConnectX-4 > (mlx5) adapters can take advantage of, such as: > > - Separate post and doorbell operations on all queues. > - Lightweight RX queues called Work Queues (WQs). > - Low-level RSS indirection table and hash key configuration. > > This patchset enhances mlx5 with all of these for better performance and > flexibility. Documentation is updated accordingly. Has anybody explored doing a driver without the dependency on OFED? It is certainly possible. The Linux kernel drivers don't depend on it. And dropping OFED would certainly be faster.
