vdpa/mlx5: Make VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF off by default
authorEli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:28:08 +0000 (13:28 +0200)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:02:31 +0000 (03:02 -0400)
commit791a1cb7b8591ece6a5075dfed803da379e7ecd3
tree0c7374c8edaf1d64f6a77f6275ca715b3796c57c
parenta084983dcd4e75616fe4102c690d2fc922ac32b5
vdpa/mlx5: Make VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF off by default

Following patch adds driver support for VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF.

Current firmware versions show degradation in packet rate when using
MRG_RXBUF. Users who favor memory saving over packet rate could enable
this feature but we want to keep it off by default.

One can still enable it when creating the vdpa device using vdpa tool by
providing features that include it.

For example:
$ vdpa dev add name vdpa0 mgmtdev pci/0000:86:00.2 device_features 0x300cb982b

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>
Message-Id: <20230321112809.221432-2-elic@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c