RE: [PATCH] doc: improve event core description in vDPA mlx5

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2022 5:22 PM
> To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve event core description in vDPA mlx5
> 
> The event core is mlx5 vDPA driver devarg that selects the CPU core for
> the internal timer thread used to manage data-path events into the
> driver.
> 
> Emphasize that this CPU should be isolated for vDPA mlx5 devices only in
> order to save the performance and latency of the device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
> index 9767fbe42d..3b5ce6df38 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
> @@ -86,8 +86,13 @@ for an additional list of options shared with other
> mlx5 drivers.
> 
>  - ``event_core`` parameter [int]
> 
> -  CPU core number to set polling thread affinity to, default to control
> plane
> -  cpu.
> +  The CPU core number of the timer thread, default: EAL main lcore.
> +
> +.. note::
> +
> +   This core can be shared among different mlx5 vDPA devices as
> `event_core` but
> +   using it also for other tasks may affect the performance and the
> latency of the
> +   mlx5 vDPA devices.
> 
>  - ``max_conf_threads`` parameter [int]
> 
> --
> 2.25.1

Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>