[PATCH V1] net/mlx5: store IPv6 TC detection result in physical device

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 8:49 AM
> To: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>; Suanming Mou
> <suanmingm at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Jiawei(Jonny)
> Wang <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH V1] net/mlx5: store IPv6 TC detection result in physical device
> 
> Previously, discovering of IPv6 traffic class would happen on each device not
> sharing context with others. However, It's not necessary to repeat it on
> devices of the same physical device. A flow will be created and destroyed in
> the detection, which may trigger cache allocation and take more memory in
> scale cases.
> 
> To solve the problem, store the discovering of IPv6 traffic class result in
> physical device, and do it only once per physical device.
> 
> Fixes: 569b8340a012 ("net/mlx5: discover IPv6 traffic class support in RDMA
> core")
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Li <gavinl at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm at nvidia.com>
Patch applied to next-net-mlx

Kindest regards
Raslan Darawsheh