[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/ip_reassembly: enable scatter mode for Mellanox PMDs
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Nov 19 02:15:26 CET 2019
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:18:33 -0600
Thinh Tran <thinhtr at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Simple change to enable scatter for Mellanox CX4/CX5 PMDs
> to run this example
>
> Signed-off-by: Thinh Tran <thinhtr at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> examples/ip_reassembly/main.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/examples/ip_reassembly/main.c b/examples/ip_reassembly/main.c
> index d59e6d02f..f881b89d1 100644
> --- a/examples/ip_reassembly/main.c
> +++ b/examples/ip_reassembly/main.c
> @@ -1109,6 +1109,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
> port_conf.rx_adv_conf.rss_conf.rss_hf,
> local_port_conf.rx_adv_conf.rss_conf.rss_hf);
> }
> + /* Mellanox PMDs needs scatter mode to be explicitly enabled */
> + if (!strcmp(dev_info.driver_name, "net_mlx5"))
> + local_port_conf.rxmode.offloads |= DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER;
This is a bad, bad precedent.
Either fix MLX driver or enable it for all PMD's.
Forcing applications to do workarounds indicates a poor design abstraction.
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