[3/8] net/mlx5: improve Verbs flow priority discover for scalable

Message ID 20210927083256.337450-4-xuemingl@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Raslan Darawsheh
Headers
Series net/mlx5: support more than 255 representors |

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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK

Commit Message

Xueming Li Sept. 27, 2021, 8:32 a.m. UTC
  To detect number flow Verbs flow priorities, PMD try to create Verbs
flows in different priority. While Verbs is not designed to support
ports larger than 255.

When DevX supported by kernel driver, 16 Verbs priorities must be
supported, no need to create Verbs flows.

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
  

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c
index b93fd4d2c96..93bffa4a0b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@  mlx5_flow_discover_priorities(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	int i;
 	int priority = 0;
 
+#ifdef HAVE_MLX5DV_DR_DEVX_PORT
+	/* If DevX supported, driver must support 16 verbs flow priorities. */
+	priority = RTE_DIM(priority_map_5);
+	goto out;
+#endif
 	if (!drop->qp) {
 		rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
 		return -rte_errno;
@@ -109,6 +114,9 @@  mlx5_flow_discover_priorities(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 			dev->data->port_id, priority);
 		return -rte_errno;
 	}
+#ifdef HAVE_MLX5DV_DR_DEVX_PORT
+out:
+#endif
 	DRV_LOG(INFO, "port %u supported flow priorities:"
 		" 0-%d for ingress or egress root table,"
 		" 0-%d for non-root table or transfer root table.",