linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5e: TX, Utilize WQ fragments edge for multi-packet WQEs

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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:30:41 +0000
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To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5e: TX,
 Utilize WQ fragments edge for multi-packet WQEs

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:42:26 +0200 you wrote:
> For simplicity reasons, the driver avoids crossing work queue fragment
> boundaries within the same TX WQE (Work-Queue Element). Until today, as
> the number of packets in a TX MPWQE (Multi-Packet WQE) descriptor is not
> known in advance, the driver pre-prepared contiguous memory for the
> largest possible WQE. For this, when getting too close to the fragment
> edge, having no room for the largest WQE possible, the driver was
> filling the fragment remainder with NOP descriptors, aligning the next
> descriptor to the beginning of the next fragment.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] net/mlx5e: TX, Utilize WQ fragments edge for multi-packet WQEs
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/9da10c2d69c3

You are awesome, thank you!
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