On 1/16/2017 2:03 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:44:01PM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote: >> From: Matthieu Ternisien d'Ouville <matthieu....@6wind.com> >> >> Retrieving link status information through the link update callback should >> be quick and non-blocking. >> >> Mellanox PMDs retrieve this information through ioctl() calls on the >> related kernel netdevice. This appears to take a long time to >> complete and may cause significant slowdowns in applications. >> >> While these system calls cannot be accelerated, removing the lock on the >> private structure allows applications to perform other control operations >> from separate threads in the meantime. This function remains safe without >> locking as it does not write the private structure, it is only used to >> retrieve the name of the netdevice. >> >> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Ternisien d'Ouville <matthieu....@6wind.com> >> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com> >> --- >> drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c | 32 ++++++-------------------------- >> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 2 +- >> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h | 1 - >> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c | 30 ++++++------------------------ >> 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) > > Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
