[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/mlx5: add power monitoring support

[Thomas Monjalon]

04/05/2021 19:40, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 4/29/2021 3:55 PM, Alexander Kozyrev wrote:
> > Support the PMD power management API in MLX5 driver.
> > The monitor policy of this API puts a CPU core to sleep until
> > a data in some monitored memory address is changed by the NIC.
> > Implement the get_monitor_addr function to return an address
> > of a CQE owner bit to monitor the arrival of a new packet.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev at nvidia.com>
> 
> Hi David, Anatoly,
> 
> What to you think adding "Power Monitoring" as a new feature in the NIC feature
> table? So the drivers supporting it can advertise it.
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/overview.html
> 
> For it need to,
> - add "Power Monitoring" to template .ini file,
> '.doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini'
> - Document it in the features file, '.doc/guides/nics/features.rst'
> - Update driver .ini files to advertise the feature, like 'ixgbe.ini'

+1