[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 15/25] mlx5: handle Rx CQE compression

Nélio Laranjeiro nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com
Mon Jun 27 14:22:44 CEST 2016


On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 01:03:19PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:17:54PM +0200, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> > Mini (compressed) CQEs are returned by the NIC when PCI back pressure is
> > detected, in which case the first CQE64 contains common packet information
> > followed by a number of CQE8 providing the rest, followed by a matching
> > number of empty CQE64 entries to be used by software for decompression.
> > 
> What does CQE stand for "compressed queue entry" or something else. As I've asked
> others submitting driver patches, please explain out all acronyms used in the
> commit message. 

CQE is a Completion Queue Entry.

> A good rule of thumb is - if it's not checked for capitalization in the
> check-git-log.sh script, it's uncommon and needs to be expanded out in commit
> messages.
> 
> /Bruce

Right, I agree with this rule too.

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Nélio Laranjeiro
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