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net/mlx5: change default flow engine to DV

Message ID 3305860b2bb3e310fe614644ee6fc44d11b00a7c.1571918258.git.dekelp@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Raslan Darawsheh
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Series net/mlx5: change default flow engine to DV |

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Dekel Peled Oct. 24, 2019, 11:55 a.m. UTC 
  The default flow engine is Verbs flow engine, for legacy reasons.
This patch changes the default to DV flow engine (dv_flow_en = 1).
Documentation is updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 6 +++---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index fc7de52..bf01ea1 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -203,9 +203,9 @@  Limitations
 
 - LRO:
 
-  - Requires DevX to be enabled.
+  - Requires DevX and DV flow to be enabled.
   - KEEP_CRC offload cannot be supported with LRO.
-  - The first mbuf length, without head-room,  must be big enough to include the
+  - The first mbuf length, without head-room, must be big enough to include the
     TCP header (122B).
 
 Statistics
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@  Run-time configuration
   A nonzero value enables the DV flow steering assuming it is supported
   by the driver.
 
-  Disabled by default.
+  Enabled by default if supported.
 
 - ``dv_esw_en`` parameter [int]
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
index 571e766..ad3288d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
@@ -2723,6 +2723,7 @@  struct mlx5_dev_spawn_data {
 			.min_rxqs_num = MLX5_MPRQ_MIN_RXQS,
 		},
 		.dv_esw_en = 1,
+		.dv_flow_en = 1,
 	};
 	/* Device specific configuration. */
 	switch (pci_dev->id.device_id) {