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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
To: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>, Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
	Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vdpa/mlx5: hardware queue moderation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:38:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bf9f807-c8f2-aa05-881b-75cddf3fb48a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1609902390-3453-2-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com>



On 1/6/21 4:06 AM, Xueming Li wrote:
> The next parameters control the HW queue moderation feature.
> This feature helps to control the traffic performance and latency
> tradeoff.
> 
> Each packet completion report from HW to SW requires CQ processing by SW
> and triggers interrupt for the guest driver. Interrupt report and
> handling cost CPU cycles and time and the amount of this affects
> directly on packet performance and latency.
> 
> hw_latency_mode parameters [int]
>   0, HW default.
>   1, Latency is counted from the first packet completion report.
>   2, Latency is counted from the last packet completion.
> hw_max_latency_us parameters [int]
>   0 - 4095, The maximum time in microseconds that packet completion
> report can be delayed.
> hw_max_pending_comp parameter [int]
>   0 - 65535, The maximum number of pending packets completions in an HW
> queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst        | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c       |  6 ++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h       |  3 +++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa_virtq.c |  3 +++
>  4 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-07 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06  3:06 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] common/mlx5: support vDPA completion " Xueming Li
2021-01-06  3:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vdpa/mlx5: hardware " Xueming Li
2021-01-07 17:38   ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]
2021-01-08  9:17   ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-01-07 17:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] common/mlx5: support vDPA completion " Maxime Coquelin
2021-01-08  9:16 ` Maxime Coquelin

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