Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] net/mlx5: add a devarg to specify MPRQ stride size

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 4/9/2020 11:23 PM, Alexander Kozyrev wrote:
> Define a device parameter to configure log 2 of a stride size for MPRQ
> - mprq_log_stride_size. User is able to specify a stride size in a range
> allowed by an underlying hardware. The default stride size is defined as
> 2048 bytes to encompass most commonly used packet sizes in the Internet
> (MTU 1518 and less) and will be used in case a maximum configured packet
> size cannot fit into the largest possible stride size. Otherwise a
> stride size is set to a large enough value to encompass a whole packet.
> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Hi Alexander,

This is a new feature, and you are asking it for to be backported to the stable
trees.

There is no question on getting the fixes to the stable tree, but for
backporting features I would like to get the comment of the stable tree
maintainers first before merging the series.

Or if the stable tag added by mistake please let me know, I can remove them
while merging.

Thanks,
ferruh

> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>

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