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    "id": 53121,
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    "msgid": "<1556339577-18185-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com>",
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    "date": "2019-04-27T04:32:55",
    "name": "[v3,0/2] net/mlx5: share Memory Regions for multiport devices",
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        "name": "Slava Ovsiienko",
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            "date": "2019-04-27T04:32:55",
            "name": "net/mlx5: share Memory Regions for multiport devices",
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    "headers": {
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            "from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585A91B71D;\n\tSat, 27 Apr 2019 06:33:03 +0200 (CEST)",
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        "From": "Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>",
        "To": "shahafs@mellanox.com",
        "Cc": "dev@dpdk.org, yskoh@mellanox.com",
        "Date": "Sat, 27 Apr 2019 04:32:55 +0000",
        "Message-Id": "<1556339577-18185-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com>",
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        "References": "<1556095470-11407-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com>",
        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] net/mlx5: share Memory Regions for\n\tmultiport devices",
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    "content": "The patches [1] and [2] are both related to Memory Regions sharing and their\napplying order matters, this series just combines ones.\n\nThe multiport Infiniband device support was introduced [3].\nAll active ports, belonging to the same Infiniband device use the single\nshared Infiniband context of that device and share the resources:\n  - QPs are created within shared context\n  - Verbs flows are also created with specifying port index\n  - DV/DR resources\n  - Protection Domain\n  - Event Handlers\n\nThis patchset adds support for Memory Regions sharing between\nports, created on the base of multiport Infiniband device.\nThe datapath of mlx5 uses the layered cache subsystem for\nallocating/releasing Memory Regions, only the lowest layer L3\nis subject to share due to performance issues.\n\n[1] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/53040/\n[2] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/53041/\n[3] http://patches.dpdk.org/cover/51800/\n\nSigned-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>\n---\nv3:\n  - combine two patches in pathset\n  - commit messages spellcheck\n\nv2:\n  - intendation issues\n  - comments cleanup\n\nv1:\n  http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/52723/\n\nViacheslav Ovsiienko (2):\n  net/mlx5: share Memory Regions for multiport device\n  net/mlx5: update memory event callback for shared context\n\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c     |  42 +++++---\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h     |  21 ++--\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mr.c  | 245 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mr.h  |   5 +-\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c |   2 +-\n 5 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)"
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