From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 08/15] net/mlx5e: Add hairpin debugfs files
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:48:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230117104851.2c722c6e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac5bf8cd-c30a-0c36-a6ca-a95a8ed0d152@nvidia.com>
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:04:58 +0200 Gal Pressman wrote:
> The hairpin queues are different than other queues in the driver as they
> are controlled by the device (refill, completion handling, etc.).
> Hardware configuration can make a difference in performance when working
> with hairpin, things that wouldn't necessarily affect regular queues the
> driver uses. The debugging process is also more difficult as the driver
> has little control/visibility over these.
>
> At the end of the day, the debug process *is* going to be playing with
> the queue size/number, this allows us to potentially find a number that
> releases the bottleneck and see how it affects other stages in the pipe.
> Since these cases are unlikely to happen, and changing of these
> parameters can affect the device in other ways, we don't want people to
> just increase them when they encounter performance issues, especially
> not in production environments.
>
> Does that make sense?
Okay, I think my guess that "debug" here means "wobble it to see if
the device can go faster" was indeed correct. Long term maybe we should
find a better word for that than "debug".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-17 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-11 5:30 [pull request][net-next 00/15] mlx5 updates 2023-01-10 Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 01/15] net/mlx5: Expose shared buffer registers bits and structs Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 9:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 02/15] net/mlx5e: Add API to query/modify SBPR and SBCM registers Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 03/15] net/mlx5e: Update shared buffer along with device buffer changes Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 04/15] net/mlx5e: Add Ethernet driver debugfs Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 05/15] net/mlx5e: kTLS, Add debugfs Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 18:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-11 20:20 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 20:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 06/15] net/mlx5e: Add hairpin params structure Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 07/15] net/mlx5e: Add flow steering debugfs directory Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 08/15] net/mlx5e: Add hairpin debugfs files Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 18:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-11 20:46 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 21:03 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-11 23:01 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-12 3:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-12 9:17 ` Gal Pressman
2023-01-12 22:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-15 10:04 ` Gal Pressman
2023-01-17 18:48 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 09/15] net/mlx5: Enable management PF initialization Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 10/15] net/mlx5: Introduce and use opcode getter in command interface Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 11/15] net/mlx5: Prevent high-rate FW commands from populating all slots Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 12/15] net/mlx5e: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 13/15] net/mlx5e: Replace 0-length array with flexible array Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 14/15] net/mlx5: remove redundant ret variable Saeed Mahameed
2023-01-11 5:30 ` [net-next 15/15] net/mlx5e: Use kzalloc() in mlx5e_accel_fs_tcp_create() Saeed Mahameed
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