From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Enhance mlx5 with Mellanox OFED 3.1 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:54:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20151006095416.55a16e0c@uryu.home.lan> References: <1444067692-29645-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Adrien Mazarguil Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2800D5939 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:54:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so148610906wic.0 for ; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 01:54:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1444067692-29645-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:54:35 +0200 Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > Mellanox OFED 3.1 [1] comes with improved APIs that Mellanox ConnectX-4 > (mlx5) adapters can take advantage of, such as: > > - Separate post and doorbell operations on all queues. > - Lightweight RX queues called Work Queues (WQs). > - Low-level RSS indirection table and hash key configuration. > > This patchset enhances mlx5 with all of these for better performance and > flexibility. Documentation is updated accordingly. Has anybody explored doing a driver without the dependency on OFED? It is certainly possible. The Linux kernel drivers don't depend on it. And dropping OFED would certainly be faster.