Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] PF driver modified to enable HW filter support, changes works in backward compatibility mode Enable required things in Makefile Enable LZ4 dependecy inside config file

From: Sunil Kovvuri
Date: Wed Dec 21 2016 - 08:05:27 EST


>
> #define NIC_MAX_RSS_HASH_BITS 8
> #define NIC_MAX_RSS_IDR_TBL_SIZE (1 << NIC_MAX_RSS_HASH_BITS)
> +#define NIC_TNS_RSS_IDR_TBL_SIZE 5

So you want to use only 5 queues per VF when TNS is enabled, is it ??
There are 4096 RSS indices in total, for each VF you can use max 32.
I guess you wanted to set no of hash bits to 5 instead of table size.

> #define RSS_HASH_KEY_SIZE 5 /* 320 bit key */
>
> struct nicvf_rss_info {
> @@ -255,74 +258,6 @@ struct nicvf_drv_stats {
> struct u64_stats_sync syncp;
> };
>
> -struct nicvf {
> - struct nicvf *pnicvf;
> - struct net_device *netdev;
> - struct pci_dev *pdev;
> - void __iomem *reg_base;

Didn't get why you moved this structure to the end of file.
Looks like an unnecessary modification.


> +static unsigned int num_vfs;
> +module_param(num_vfs, uint, 0644);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(num_vfs, "Non zero positive value, specifies number of VF's per physical port");

So what if driver is built-in instead of module, I can't use TNS is it ?

>
> +/* Set RBDR Backpressure (RBDR_BP) and CQ backpressure (CQ_BP) of vnic queues
> + * to 129 each

Why 129 ??
RBDR minimum size is 8K buffers, why you want to assert BP when still
~4K buffers
are available. Isn't 4K a huge number to start asserting backpressure ?