Re: [PATCH V4 for-next 00/10] Verbs RSS

Yuval Shaia
2016-05-29T11:27:57Z

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:20:46PM +0300, Yishai Hadas wrote:
>
> RSS (Receive Side Scaling) technology allows to spread incoming traffic
> between different receive descriptor queues.
> Assigning each queue to different CPU cores allows to better load
> balance the incoming traffic and improve performance.
>
> This patch-set introduces some new objects and verbs in order to allow
> verbs based solutions to utilize the RSS offload capability which is
> widely supported today by many modern NICs. It extends the IB and uverbs
> layers to support the above functionality and supplies a specific
> implementation for the mlx5_ib driver.
Any plans for mlx4_ib driver?
>
> The implementation is based on an RFC that was sent to the list some
> months ago and describes the expected verbs and objects.
> RFC: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg25012.html
>
> In addition, below URL can be used as a reference to the motivation and
> the justification to add the new objects that are described below.
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
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