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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:47:14 +0000
From: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@...lanox.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next 2/8] net/mlx5: Configure cache line size for start and
end padding
On 2/1/2017 5:12 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Saeed Mahameed
>> Sent: 31 January 2017 20:59
>> From: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@...lanox.com>
>>
>> There is a hardware feature that will pad the start or end of a DMA to
>> be cache line aligned to avoid RMWs on the last cache line. The default
>> cache line size setting for this feature is 64B. This change configures
>> the hardware to use 128B alignment on systems with 128B cache lines.
> What guarantees that the extra bytes are actually inside the receive skb's
> head and tail room?
>
> David
>
>
The hardware won't over write the length of the posted buffer. This feature is already enabled and defaults to 64B stride, this patch just configures it properly for 128B cache line sizes.
Thanks for reviewing it.
Dan
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