From: "Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
To: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Cc: adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, dev@dpdk.org, yskoh@mellanox.com,
stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: enforce Tx num of segments limitation
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:28:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170824132857.GK4544@autoinstall.dev.6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170823073358.116786-2-shahafs@mellanox.com>
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:33:58AM +0300, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Mellanox NICs has a limitation on the number of mbuf segments a multi
> segment mbuf can have. The max number depends on the Tx offloads requested.
>
> The current code not enforce such limitation, which might cause
> malformed WQEs to be written to the device.
Avoid acronyms in the commit message (at least on first occurrence), not all
people knows what a WQE is and getting such information is not easy.
> This commit adds verification for the number of mbuf segments posted
> to the device. In case of overflow the packet will not be sent.
> Debug prints were added to help application identify the cause for such
> case.
>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
> ---
>
> This patch should be applied only after the series:
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/27367/
>
> ---
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h | 3 ++-
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h | 3 +++
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec_sse.c | 8 ++++++++
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h
> index 608072f7e..87244e7db 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h
> @@ -154,6 +154,9 @@
> /* Default mark value used when none is provided. */
> #define MLX5_FLOW_MARK_DEFAULT 0xffffff
>
> +/* Maximum number of DS in WQE. */
> +#define MLX5_MAX_DS (63)
> +
Why the parenthesis?
Thanks,
--
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-24 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-23 7:33 [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: fix num seg assumption on vPMD Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 7:33 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: enforce Tx num of segments limitation Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-24 13:28 ` Nélio Laranjeiro [this message]
2017-08-24 13:23 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: fix num seg assumption on vPMD Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-08-30 7:07 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 " Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-04 14:57 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-09-11 12:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/3] " Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-13 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 1/4] " Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-14 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v5 " Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-15 10:51 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-09-14 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v5 2/4] net/mlx5: fix Tx stats error counter definition Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-14 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v5 3/4] net/mlx5: fix Tx stats error counter logic Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-14 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v5 4/4] net/mlx5: enforce Tx num of segments limitation Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-14 19:21 ` Yongseok Koh
2017-09-15 8:11 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-09-13 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 2/4] net/mlx5: fix Tx stats error counter definition Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-13 17:59 ` Yongseok Koh
2017-09-14 8:11 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-09-13 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 3/4] net/mlx5: fix Tx stats error counter logic Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-13 18:17 ` Yongseok Koh
2017-09-14 8:12 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-09-13 10:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 4/4] net/mlx5: enforce Tx num of segments limitation Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-13 19:51 ` Yongseok Koh
2017-09-14 5:23 ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-14 8:05 ` Yongseok Koh
2017-09-11 12:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 2/3] net/mlx5: fix Tx stats error counter Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-11 12:50 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 3/3] net/mlx5: enforce Tx num of segments limitation Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-30 7:07 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/2] " Shahaf Shuler
2017-09-04 14:57 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
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