netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 bpf 1/5] net: ethtool: add xdp properties flag set

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Message-ID: <d5be0627-6a11-9c1f-8507-cc1a1421dade@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:30:39 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>,
        Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>
Cc:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        alardam@...il.com, magnus.karlsson@...el.com,
        bjorn.topel@...el.com, andrii.nakryiko@...il.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        ast@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        hawk@...nel.org, jonathan.lemon@...il.com, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, maciejromanfijalkowski@...il.com,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        Marek Majtyka <marekx.majtyka@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf 1/5] net: ethtool: add xdp properties flag set

On 12/9/20 11:48 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 20:34 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 12/9/20 10:15 AM, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>>>> My personal experience with this one is mlx5/ConnectX4-LX with a
>>>> limit
>>>
>>> This limit was removed from mlx5
>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/20200107191335.12272-5-saeedm@mellanox.com/
>>> Note: you still need to use ehttool to increase from 64 to 128 or
>>> 96 in
>>> your case.
>>>
>>
>> I asked you about that commit back in May:
>>
> 
> :/, sorry i missed this email, must have been the mlnx nvidia email
> transition.
> 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/198081c2-cb0d-e1d5-901c-446b63c36706@gmail.com/
>>
>> As noted in the thread, it did not work for me.
> 
> Still relevant ? I might need to get you some tools to increase #msix
> in Firmware.
> 

not for me at the moment, but it would be good to document what a user
needs to do - especially if it involves vendor specific tools and steps.