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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>, Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>, Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix loopback for DV queue
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 18:03:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1775628.LvkAriOW2H@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR12MB37535BDC2CB31053B596D235DF529@DM6PR12MB3753.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

12/05/2021 17:48, Slava Ovsiienko:
> Hi, Thomas
> 
> > How do we switch?
> 
> Historically mlx5 created Queues and other HW objects with Verbs.
> Now we are migrating ("switched") to DevX - queues are being created with DevX calls.
> If there is no E-Switch - the new DevX approach is engaged,
> for E-Switch configurations we still use Verbs.

OK this is what I thought, but it is not clear in the commit message.
We could think it is the user switching a queue :)
Please reword by comparing Verbs and DevX without saying "switch".


> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > 12/05/2021 16:51, Bing Zhao:
> > > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > > 12/05/2021 16:36, Bing Zhao:
> > > > > When switching to the Devx interface, the kernel driver behavior
> > > > may
> > > >
> > > > What do you mean by "switching"?
> > >
> > > I mean when changing the Rxq from Verbs API to Devx API.
> > 
> > 
> > > > > be different from using Verbs. The Tx loopback cannot work
> > > > properly
> > > > > even if the Tx and Rx queues are configured with loopback
> > > > attribute.
> > > > > To support self loopback for Tx, a Verbs dummy queue pair needs to
> > > > be
> > > > > created to trigger the kernel to enable the loopback.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is only required when TIR is created for Rx and loopback is
> > > > > needed. Only CQ and QP are needed for this case, no WQ(RQ) needs
> > > > to be
> > > > > created.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-12 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-12 14:36 Bing Zhao
2021-05-12 14:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-05-12 14:51   ` Bing Zhao
2021-05-12 15:30     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-05-12 15:48       ` Slava Ovsiienko
2021-05-12 16:03         ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-05-13 11:14           ` Bing Zhao
2021-05-13 11:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Bing Zhao
2021-05-13 12:58   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon
2021-05-13 12:59     ` Bing Zhao
2021-05-17 15:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Bing Zhao
2021-05-18  8:32   ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-05-18  8:33     ` Bing Zhao

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