[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/9] mlx5: Handle data-path completions with error

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Thu Sep 12 14:14:55 CEST 2019


On 30/05/2019 11:20, Matan Azrad wrote:
> Add support for data-path Rx and Tx completions with error handling:
> 
> 1. Detect the error.
> 2. Do not crash.
> 3. Report it in statistics counters.
> 4. Dump debug information to system log file.
> 5. Recover the error under the hood.
> 6. Add support for secondary process recovery.
> 
> No performance impact was shown. 
> 
> Matan Azrad (9):
>   net/mlx5: remove Rx queues indexes correlation
>   net/mlx5: add log file procedure for debug data
>   net/mlx5: fix device arguments error detection
>   net/mlx5: mitigate Rx doorbell memory barrier
>   net/mlx5: separate Rx queue initialization
>   net/mlx5: extend Rx completion with error handling
>   net/mlx5: handle Tx completion with error
>   net/mlx5: recover secondary process Rx errors
>   net/mlx5: recover secondary process Tx errors
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst              |   7 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c               |  14 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h               |  12 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mp.c            |  46 +++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h           |  11 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c           |  42 +--
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c          | 673 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h          | 193 +++++-----
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec.c      |   5 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec_neon.h |  36 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx_vec_sse.h  |  36 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c       |   1 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c           |   4 +-
>  13 files changed, 792 insertions(+), 288 deletions(-)
> 


Hi - these changes are very invasive ^^^. I'm not really comfortable to
take this for 18.11.3. See
http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html#what-changes-should-be-backported

I will take patch 3/9 as it is a fix with Fixes: tag.

thanks,
Kevin.


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