[PATCH] net/i40e: reduce the ITR interval of multi-driver mode

[Kevin Traynor]

On 26/12/2022 05:50, Zhang, Qi Z wrote:
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> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang at intel.com>
>> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2022 11:12 AM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>
>> Cc: Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang at intel.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH] net/i40e: reduce the ITR interval of multi-driver mode
>>
>> This patch change the interrupt interval from 8160us to 32us to improve the
>> performance of multi-driver mode.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang at intel.com>
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> Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> 
> Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.
> 
> The patch also looks good for backporting, so added Cc stable tag.
> 

Hi. This looks like it is not fixing anything and it is changing a 
behaviour, so I won't take for 21.11.4.

thanks,
Kevin.

> Thanks
> Qi
> 
> 
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.h | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.h b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.h
>> index fe943a45ff..7c4cc44a27 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.h
>> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.h
>> @@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ i40e_calc_itr_interval(bool is_pf, bool is_multi_drv)
>>   	uint16_t interval = 0;
>>
>>   	if (is_multi_drv) {
>> -		interval = I40E_QUEUE_ITR_INTERVAL_MAX;
>> +		interval = I40E_QUEUE_ITR_INTERVAL_DEFAULT;
>>   	} else {
>>   		if (is_pf)
>>   			interval = I40E_QUEUE_ITR_INTERVAL_DEFAULT;
>> --
>> 2.25.1
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