Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: improve interrupt management

["Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Matan Azrad
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:13 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: improve interrupt management
> 
> The driver should notify the guest for each traffic burst detected by CQ
> polling.
> 
> The CQ polling trigger is defined by `event_mode` device argument,
> either by busy polling on all the CQs or by blocked call to HW
> completion event using DevX channel.
> 
> Also, the polling event modes can move to blocked call when the
> traffic rate is low.
> 
> The current blocked call uses the EAL interrupt API suffering a lot
> of overhead in the API management and serve all the drivers and
> libraries using only single thread.
> 
> Use blocking FD of the DevX channel in order to do blocked call
> directly by the DevX channel FD mechanism.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst        |   8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c       |   8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h       |   8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa_event.c | 308 +++++++++++++++--------------------
> -
>  4 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Patch applied to next-virtio/main with conflict resolved.

Thanks!