Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH] crypto/octeontx: use distinct metabuf pool for each queue

[Anoob Joseph <anoobj@marvell.com>]

Hi Kevin,

This patch need not be backported. You can ignore this.

Thanks,
Anoob

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> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 4:47 PM
> To: Anoob Joseph <anoobj@marvell.com>; Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>;
> Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>; Narayana Prasad Raju
> Athreya <pathreya@marvell.com>; Shally Verma <shallyv@marvell.com>;
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] crypto/octeontx: use distinct metabuf
> pool for each queue
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> On 18/04/2019 04:30, Anoob Joseph wrote:
> > The metabuf pool is shared across all queue pairs belonging to the
> > PMD. In order to prevent one queue pair from starving another, use a
> > distinct mempool for each queue pair.
> >
> > Fixes: 273487f7b381 ("crypto/octeontx: add global resource init")
> >
> 
> Hi Anoob,
> 
> This won't apply on stable, the code has changed quite a bit on master.
> Please send a backport for 18.11 stable branch, or let me know if it's not
> needed.
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Anoob Joseph <anoobj@marvell.com>