IB/core: Introduce delay drop for a WQ
authorMaor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Tue, 30 May 2017 07:29:10 +0000 (10:29 +0300)
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:34:28 +0000 (10:34 -0400)
commit7d9336d80b0b35d3537d37ff35e08dcb425073ed
treef2b1f134342eb2d2b5965c0dbfd76bd420d8148f
parent7ecf6d8ff154e6f7471ee537a400d43a5f3b1c57
IB/core: Introduce delay drop for a WQ

Work queue which is created with IB_WQ_FLAGS_DELAY_DROP won't
cause packet drops when there aren't receive WQEs, but will wait until
posting of receive WQEs or for some period of time that the device
was configured with.

It includes:
 * Add a new creation flag to enable delay drop functionality in a WQ.
 * A new capability was introduced - IB_RAW_PACKET_CAP_DELAY_DROP, which
   is the device's ability to delay packet drops when there aren't receive
   WQEs.

Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
include/rdma/ib_verbs.h