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From: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
To: thomas@monjalon.net
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, olgas@mellanox.com, shahafs@mellanox.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] doc: add mlx5 note for Bluefield build configuration
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:53:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190130075321.24466-1-yskoh@mellanox.com> (raw)

Fixes: d14e4e976f65 ("config: add Mellanox BlueField armv8 SoC")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 3f168b1613..62de860d0a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -221,6 +221,13 @@ These options can be modified in the ``.config`` file.
   adds additional run-time checks and debugging messages at the cost of
   lower performance.
 
+.. note::
+
+   For Bluefield, target should be set to ``arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc``. This
+   will enable ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD`` and set ``RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE`` to
+   64. Default armv8a configuration of make build and meson build set it to 128
+   then brings performance degradation.
+
 Environment variables
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- 
2.11.0

             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-30  7:53 Yongseok Koh [this message]
2019-01-30  7:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] doc: add Mellanox EN support Yongseok Koh
2019-01-30  7:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] doc: add mlx5 release note Yongseok Koh
2019-01-31  6:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] doc: add mlx5 note for Bluefield build configuration Shahaf Shuler
2019-01-31 17:32   ` Thomas Monjalon

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