[PATCH v2 11/11] net/mlx5: remove unneeded device status checking

[Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>]

From: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>

The flow rule can be inserted even before the device started. The
only exception is for a queue or RSS action.

For the other interfaces of template API, the start status is not
checked. The checking would cause some cache miss or eviction since
the flag locates on some other cache line.

Fixes: f1fecffa88df ("net/mlx5: support Direct Rules action template API")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
index 979be4764a..285ec603d3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
@@ -3520,11 +3520,6 @@ flow_hw_async_flow_create(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	uint32_t res_idx = 0;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (unlikely((!dev->data->dev_started))) {
-		rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED, NULL,
-				   "Port must be started before enqueueing flow operations");
-		return NULL;
-	}
 	flow = mlx5_ipool_malloc(table->flow, &flow_idx);
 	if (!flow)
 		goto error;
-- 
2.39.2