When creating a flow, the rule itself might not take effort
immediately once the function call returns with success. It would
take some time to let the steering synchronize with the hardware.
If the application wants the packet to be sent to hit the flow after
it is created, this flow sync API can be used to clear the steering
HW cache to enforce next packet hits the latest rules.
For TX, usually the NIC TX domain and/or the FDB domain should be
synchronized depends in which domain the flow is created.
The application could also try to synchronize the NIC RX and/or the
FDB domain for the ingress packets.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
The inline feature is designed to save PCI bandwidth by copying some
of the data to the wqe. This feature if enabled works for all packets.
In some cases when using external memory, the PCI bandwidth is not
relevant since the memory can be accessed by other means.
This commit introduce the ability to control the inline with mbuf
granularity.
In order to use this feature the application should register the field
name, and restart the port.
Signed-off-by: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
