Re: [PATCH net-next 07/12] net/mlx5: HWS, Fix pool size optimization

Vlad Dogaru
2025-04-10T15:45:57Z

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 02:21:21PM +0200, Michal Kubiak wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 05:00:51PM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> > From: Vlad Dogaru <vdogaru@nvidia.com>
> >
> > The optimization to create a size-one STE range for the unused direction
> > was broken. The hardware prevents us from creating RTCs over unallocated
> > STE space, so the only reason this has worked so far is because the
> > optimization was never used.
> >
>
> Is there any chance that the optimization can be used (enabled) by
> someone on previous kernels? If so, maybe the patch is a better candidate
> for the "net" tree?

I strongly doubt it. Hardware steering has only been in the kernel since
6.14 and we are not aware of any users. The default is still to use the
older generation software steering, AFAIK.

Thanks,
Vlad