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[v5,26/26] doc: add mlx5 multiple-thread flow insertion optimization

Message ID 20210712014654.32428-27-suanmingm@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: Raslan Darawsheh
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Series net/mlx5: insertion rate optimization |

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Commit Message

Suanming Mou July 12, 2021, 1:46 a.m. UTC 
  This commit adds the multiple-thread flow insertion optimization
description.

Signed-off-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst               | 5 +++++
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.rst | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 5a3c4f198a..199beb2549 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -448,6 +448,11 @@  Limitations
   - 256 ports maximum.
   - 4M connections maximum.
 
+- Multiple-thread flow insertion:
+
+  - In order to achieve best insertion rate, application should manage the flows on the rte-lcore.
+  - Better to configure ``reclaim_mem_mode`` as 0 to accelerate the flow object allocate and release with cache.
+
 Statistics
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.rst
index 6a902ef9ac..68496496e8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.rst
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@  New Features
 
   * Added support for meter hierarchy.
   * Added devargs options ``allow_duplicate_pattern``.
+  * Optimize multiple-thread flow insertion rate.
 
 * **Added support for Marvell CNXK crypto driver.**