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From: "Minggang(Gavin) Li" <gavinl@nvidia.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: viacheslavo@nvidia.com, matan@nvidia.com, orika@nvidia.com,
	thomas@monjalon.net, Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>,
	Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>, Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, rasland@nvidia.com,
	Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/7] net/mlx5: add new devargs to control probe optimization
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:27:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbb58ee8-c915-42e2-8739-09b400e81263@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241028084732.10774614@hermes.local>


On 10/28/2024 11:47 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:18:18 +0200
> "Minggang Li(Gavin)" <gavinl@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>> +- ``probe_opt_en`` parameter [int]
>> +
>> +  A non-zero value optimizes the probe process, especially for large scale.
>> +  PMD will hold the IB device information internally and reuse it.
>> +
>> +  By default, the PMD will set this value to 0.
>> +
> Is there ever a case where this should not be used?
>
> It would be better to just detect and use it if available.
> This driver does not need more options...
The new mechanism, which is required by few users, so we would not break 
production and with the option we encourage to use new way only those 
who actually needs. Once we see the new way is reliable - we will change 
the default value.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-29  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-16  8:38 [PATCH V1 0/7] port probe time optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-16  8:38 ` [PATCH V1 1/7] mailmap: update user name Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-16  8:38 ` [PATCH V1 2/7] net/mlx5: optimize device probing Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-16  8:38 ` [PATCH V1 3/7] net/mlx5: add new devargs to control probe optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-16  8:38 ` [PATCH V1 4/7] common/mlx5: fix Netlink socket leak Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-16  8:38 ` [PATCH V1 5/7] common/mlx5: add RDMA monitor event awareness Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-16  8:38 ` [PATCH V1 6/7] mlx5: use RDMA Netlink to update port information Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-16  8:38 ` [PATCH V1 7/7] mlx5: add backward compatibility for RDMA monitor Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28  9:18   ` [PATCH V2 0/7] port probe time optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28  9:18     ` [PATCH V2 1/7] mailmap: update user name Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28  9:18     ` [PATCH V2 2/7] net/mlx5: optimize device probing Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28  9:18     ` [PATCH V2 3/7] net/mlx5: add new devargs to control probe optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28 15:47       ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-29  8:27         ` Minggang(Gavin) Li [this message]
2024-10-29 16:07           ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-30  8:16             ` Slava Ovsiienko
2024-10-30 19:05               ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-28  9:18     ` [PATCH V2 4/7] common/mlx5: fix Netlink socket leak Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28  9:18     ` [PATCH V2 5/7] common/mlx5: add RDMA monitor event awareness Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28  9:18     ` [PATCH V2 6/7] mlx5: use RDMA Netlink to update port information Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28  9:18     ` [PATCH V2 7/7] mlx5: add backward compatibility for RDMA monitor Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-28 15:49       ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-29  8:31         ` Minggang(Gavin) Li
2024-10-29 13:42       ` [PATCH V3 0/7] port probe time optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 13:42         ` [PATCH V3 1/7] mailmap: update user name Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 13:42         ` [PATCH V3 2/7] net/mlx5: optimize device probing Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 13:42         ` [PATCH V3 3/7] net/mlx5: add new devargs to control probe optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 16:20           ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-31 19:30             ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-11-04  8:36               ` Slava Ovsiienko
2024-11-04  9:16                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-10-29 13:42         ` [PATCH V3 4/7] common/mlx5: fix Netlink socket leak Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 13:42         ` [PATCH V3 5/7] common/mlx5: add RDMA monitor event awareness Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 13:42         ` [PATCH V3 6/7] mlx5: use RDMA Netlink to update port information Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 13:42         ` [PATCH V3 7/7] mlx5: add backward compatibility for RDMA monitor Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 14:31           ` [PATCH V3 0/7] port probe time optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 14:31             ` [PATCH V3 1/7] mailmap: update user name Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-31 10:01               ` Raslan Darawsheh
2024-10-29 14:31             ` [PATCH V3 2/7] net/mlx5: optimize device probing Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 14:31             ` [PATCH V3 3/7] net/mlx5: add new devargs to control probe optimization Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 14:31             ` [PATCH V3 4/7] common/mlx5: fix Netlink socket leak Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 14:31             ` [PATCH V3 5/7] common/mlx5: add RDMA monitor event awareness Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 14:31             ` [PATCH V3 6/7] mlx5: use RDMA Netlink to update port information Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 14:31             ` [PATCH V3 7/7] mlx5: add backward compatibility for RDMA monitor Minggang Li(Gavin)
2024-10-29 16:26           ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-30  8:25             ` Minggang(Gavin) Li

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