[PATCH v5 0/5] Use consecutive Tx queues' memory

[Bing Zhao]

This patchset will move all the mlx5 Tx queues memory to a
consecutive memory area. All the WQEBBs will be allocated based
on the offset of this memory area.

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v2:
  1. add a new fix for legacy code of WQE calculation
  2. fix the style
v3:
  1. change the devarg and add description.
  2. reorganize the code with different commits order.
v4:
  1. fix building failure on Windows and OSes with different compilers
  2. update the rst
  3. addressing comments and fix bugs
v5:
  1. solve one size_t coverity warning
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Bing Zhao (5):
  net/mlx5: add new devarg for Tx queue consecutive memory
  net/mlx5: calculate the memory length for all Tx queues
  net/mlx5: allocate and release unique resources for Tx queues
  net/mlx5: pass the information in Tx queue start
  net/mlx5: use consecutive memory for Tx queue creation

 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst               |  25 ++++
 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common_devx.c | 160 +++++++++++++++--------
 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common_devx.h |   2 +
 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_devx_cmds.h   |  10 ++
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c                |  36 +++++
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h                |  15 ++-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_devx.c           |  26 +++-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c        | 173 +++++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_tx.h             |   2 +
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c            |  67 +++++++++-
 10 files changed, 418 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)

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