[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] vdpa/mlx5: improve interrupt management

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 5/2/21 12:45 PM, Matan Azrad wrote:
> The driver should notify the guest for each traffic burst detected by CQ
> polling.
> 
> The CQ polling trigger is defined by `event_mode` device argument,
> either by busy polling on all the CQs or by blocked call to HW
> completion event using DevX channel.
> 
> Also, the polling event modes can move to blocked call when the
> traffic rate is low.
> 
> The current blocked call uses the EAL interrupt API suffering a lot
> of overhead in the API management and serve all the drivers and
> libraries using only single thread.
> 
> Use blocking FD of the DevX channel in order to do blocked call
> directly by the DevX channel FD mechanism.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst        |   8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c       |   8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h       |   8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa_event.c | 304 +++++++++++-----------------
>  4 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)
> 
> v2:
> Rebased on top of latest updates by Thomas.
> 


Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/main.

Thanks,
Maxime