[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] vdpa/mlx5: set polling mode default delay to zero

[Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>]

To improve throughput and latency, this patch allows Rx polling timer
delay to 0us.

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst  | 3 +--
 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c | 9 +++------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
index 3a6d88362d..903fdb0e60 100644
--- a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
@@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ Driver options
   - 0, A nonzero value to set timer step in micro-seconds. The timer thread
     dynamic delay change steps according to this value. Default value is 1us.
 
-  - 1, A nonzero value to set fixed timer delay in micro-seconds. Default value
-    is 100us.
+  - 1, A value to set fixed timer delay in micro-seconds. Default value is 0us.
 
 - ``no_traffic_time`` parameter [int]
 
diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
index b64f364eb7..5020a99fae 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
@@ -651,12 +651,9 @@ mlx5_vdpa_config_get(struct rte_devargs *devargs, struct mlx5_vdpa_priv *priv)
 		return;
 	rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, NULL, mlx5_vdpa_args_check_handler, priv);
 	rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
-	if (!priv->event_us) {
-		if (priv->event_mode == MLX5_VDPA_EVENT_MODE_DYNAMIC_TIMER)
-			priv->event_us = MLX5_VDPA_DEFAULT_TIMER_STEP_US;
-		else if (priv->event_mode == MLX5_VDPA_EVENT_MODE_FIXED_TIMER)
-			priv->event_us = MLX5_VDPA_DEFAULT_TIMER_DELAY_US;
-	}
+	if (!priv->event_us &&
+	    priv->event_mode == MLX5_VDPA_EVENT_MODE_DYNAMIC_TIMER)
+		priv->event_us = MLX5_VDPA_DEFAULT_TIMER_STEP_US;
 	DRV_LOG(DEBUG, "event mode is %d.", priv->event_mode);
 	DRV_LOG(DEBUG, "event_us is %u us.", priv->event_us);
 	DRV_LOG(DEBUG, "no traffic time is %u s.", priv->no_traffic_time_s);
-- 
2.25.1