On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 10:29 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> From Maor:
> ---
> This series adding support to avoid RAW ethernet packet drops.
>
> When packets received and there are no receive WQEs, then
> the packets are dropped. In certain scenarios it may be preferred
> to configure the device to avoid such packet drops, assuming
> the posting of WQEs will resume shortly.
>
> Under such configuration, when a packet is received for a
> WQ with no receive WQEs, the packet processing is delayed
> until receive WQEs are posted.
>
> If receive WQEs are still not posted after a device configured
> time, the packet is dropped.
>
> To enable this delay drop feature on a WQ, the user should
> set the IB_WQ_FLAGS_DELAY_DROP flag on creation.
The series changes core code API, but only on the raw ethernet QP type,
which is essentially a Mellanox only thing, so I have no issues with
the API change as it is. Series applied.
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