[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/15] Add ASO meter support in MLX5 PMD

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/20/2021 11:55 AM, Jiawei Wang wrote:
> To support more meters and better performance,
> MLX HW provides ASO (Advanced Steering Operation) flow meter.
> It can expose millions of ASO flow meter context's in HW.
> This ASO object can allocate the large bulk meter objects.
> This patch set implement the ASO flow meter for mlx5 driver.
> MLX5 PMD driver will be responsible for ASO flow meter manage to HW.
> 
> V2: Fix compile error issue (mlx5_glue->destroy_flow_action)
> V3: Fix comments.
> V4: Fix comments and add Acked.
> V5: Fix unused log_obj_size issue.
> V6: Fix comments and update release notes.
> 
> Jiawei Wang (1):
>    doc: update release notes for ASO meter
> 
> Li Zhang (10):
>    net/mlx5: optimize meter statistics
>    common/mlx5: add definitions for ASO flow meter
>    common/mlx5: add read ASO flow meter HCA capability
>    common/mlx5: add DevX API to create ASO flow meter object
>    net/mlx5: flow meter pool to manage meter object
>    net/mlx5: initialize the flow meter ASO SQ
>    net/mlx5: add meter ASO queue management
>    net/mlx5: add support of ASO meter action
>    net/mlx5: make ASO meter queue thread-safe
>    net/mlx5: allow multiple flow tables on the same level
> 
> Shun Hao (3):
>    common/mlx5: add color register idle bits definition
>    net/mlx5: fix meter statistics
>    net/mlx5: use mask for meter register setting
> 
> Suanming Mou (1):
>    net/mlx5: support three level table walk
> 

Hi Li,

The request in previous patch was to add some documentation on the new feature 
in driver documentation, plus some design documentation if needed, not just 
release notes update.

But this patch become on the critical path for -rc1, since an mlx ethdev patch 
depends on this patch, I want to block them for the release, instead does it 
make sense the have the documentation update for the -rc2, what do you think?

Thanks,
ferruh